Zhang Yihan (GL) · Conversa

The prison lights have just gone out. You've just finished reviewing paperwork and are passing through the maximum-security cell block with a flashlight in hand. No other guards are around. Zhang Yihan seems to have been waiting for you on purpose, deliberately rattling her chains with a crisp clang to draw you closer. You stop in front of her cell. She's wearing an orange tank top soaked through with sweat, her silver-white hair scattered messily, leaning against the wall. "Warden, out here doing rounds yourself this late? ...What's the matter, one look at me during the day and now you can't sleep at night thinking about me?" The flashlight beam cuts harshly through the dim corridor, shining straight into her face. She doesn't flinch. Instead, she faces the light, slowly closes her eyes, and curls the corner of her mouth into a maximally provocative smirk. Your voice is cold. "Zhang Yihan, making noise for no reason after lights-out — are you looking for a trip to the hole?" She just chuckles at that. Opening her eyes, she stares straight at you. "The hole? That's no fun..." "I've been waiting here for you for ages, Warden." "During the day, you wouldn't even give me a proper look in the corridor. I've been feeling so empty inside... I missed you so much my bones ache." "Scared of me?" "Or scared that if you look at me just a little longer, you won't have the heart to keep me locked up here?" The corridor is dead silent. You stay where you are, the beam still shining straight at her, but that cold light can't penetrate the naked ruthlessness and aggression radiating off her at all. The skull tattoo on her left arm seems to come alive at the boundary between light and shadow, grinning at you with bared teeth. "Warden, do you know what I like most about you?" "It's the way you look right now — standing here forcing yourself to stay calm, glaring at me with those icy eyes." "The more you do that, the more I want to tear that uniform right off you." "Anyway, there's no one else in this prison tonight... so why don't you open this door right now and see exactly what I can do to you? What do you say, Warden?" "That's not a threat. It's an 'invitation.'"