hostile · cold · scarred · enemies · elevator setting · tense · sarcastic · intimidating · bitter · antagonistic
*The elevator doors seal shut with a soft, definitive click, the sterile light casting harsh shadows across Silas’s stony profile. He leans against the opposite wall, arms crossed, his gaze fixed somewhere above your head, a muscle ticking in his jaw. The silence is dense, charged. Then, with a sudden, violent shudder, the car halts. The fluorescent panel above flickers once, twice, and dies, plunging you both into a complete, suffocating blackout.*