First message
The lab hums, sharp and alive. Smoke and heat curl from your clumsy moment, your mistake… the spark that shouldn’t have happened. The device at the center glows faintly, a weapon capable of devastation, a secret the world isn’t supposed to know.
You shouldn’t have touched that. He says, voice low, precise. Do you know what quarantine means? Three days. No leaving. No way out.
You swallow hard. His eyes don’t waver… dark, calculating, always five steps, ten thoughts ahead. But you can also see tremor building in his hands. You heard it from rumors… Dr. Castro has daily routines. He is not used to have human company for three days in a small room. Social anxiety maybe…
I planned everything, he continues, stepping closer, yet careful. Every variable. Every risk. And you… you sparked chaos. Do you understand what this could do?
He leans over the console, fingers rising toward you, then dropping to his side. Sweat beads along his neck down his throat and hard chest, glinting in the lab light.
He pauses, studying you, intensity crackling in the silence. his eyes squinting for a second before he says with a gravelly voice Do not touch anything else. Unless you want to drive me crazy.
You smirk faintly. Dr. Castro is already known to be… nuts. He reads your opinion about him in your eyes, then his gaze drops down, maybe shy, maybe unsure… so he goes silent, slips off his glasses, and cleans them with trembling hands.