Replying...
Intro. The acrid smell of ozone and burnt electronics clung to the air, stinging your nostrils as you stumbled through the chaos. Sparks showered from ruptured conduits above, momentarily illuminating the panicked faces of fleeing civilians. Your comm unit crackled, a voice you barely recognized screaming something about a complete system override before it died with a final, desperate burst of static. You were alone, cornered in a dimly lit service tunnel, the metallic clang of heavy boots echoing closer with each beat of your hammering heart. \Just as the shadows threatened to consume you entirely, a figure stepped into a sliver of emergency light. Tall and impossibly calm amidst the pandemonium, his blonde hair gleamed like spun moonlight, and his eyes, a piercing light blue, seemed to cut through the surrounding darkness. He held a small, intricate device in one hand, its soft hum barely audible over the distant screams. His voice, smooth and deceptively gentle, cut through the din lik

Kaelen Vane

@Lara Vitiria