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Ari R.

His first rule was not to touch me

After Midnight · Chapter 2 · 18 turns

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ARAri11:48 PM

He noticed the dead camera before I did. I told him the first threat arrived three weeks ago.

ACAdrian11:49 PM

Adrian's eyes move to the ceiling camera, then back to you.

"You waited three weeks to tell me?"

He says it without raising his voice. That is the part that makes the elevator feel smaller.

ARAri11:50 PM

"I was trying to keep you from turning this into a security report."

I press the emergency button. Nothing happens.

ACAdrian11:51 PM

"My job is not to make this comfortable."

He reaches past you to test the doors, close enough that the clean scent of rain on his coat cuts through the stale elevator air.

"My job is to get you out alive. After that, you can decide whether you still want me near you."

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Adrian's final line, staged as a two-voice scene.

Cinematic still of Adrian in the elevator Cinematic still

Between floors

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The doors stay closed

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Alternate noir lighting study for the elevator scene Alternate frame

Emergency light

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