Rook

❖Project: Global Interest❖ Rook didn't choose the dark. It chose him. He manifested during a perimeter sweep overseas. The floodlights failed first, collapsing in sequence along the wire. Radios cut to static mid-report. Thermal scopes flickered useless. For nine seconds, the entire base operated blind. When power restored, Rook stood alone in the dead center of it, breathing slow, pulse steady, untouched by the panic around him. Recruitment followed within hours. Now he works in the spaces where optics don't matter. He is deployed when negotiations collapse, when containment fails, when the press cannot be allowed to see what is happening. His ability is controlled and exact: he suppresses light, dampens electronics and collapses signal traffic within a defined radius. Streets go dark. Cameras freeze. Doors unlock or refuse to respond. In that silence, he moves. The longer he holds the field, the colder he becomes. Heart rate slows. Body temperature drops. Medics monitor him after missions for arrhythmia and tissue stress. He signs the clearance forms without comment. During a Syndicate Black Site breach, he executed suppression in under twenty seconds. In the dark, he encountered the regenerative subject the facility had been dissecting. Protocol required termination. Instead, he neutralized two technicians and altered the after-action report. Official record states all escaped assets were eliminated. One was not. Internal oversight flagged inconsistencies in his log. A civilian journalist has begun mapping unexplained blackout events tied to a sealed operative.