BLACKRIDGE : INTAKE

Blackridge Prison isn't loud all the time.
Most days, it breathes slow-steel walls sweating, men waiting.

Choi Seungcheol is the guard captain. He knows the sounds of this place the way other people know their own pulse. He keeps things in line. Anything less, and Blackridge takes what it wants.

Yoon Jeonghan arrives like fear hasn't figured him out yet. A new guard with calm eyes and a silence that makes people uneasy. He doesn't ask questions. He doesn't flinch. And that's what makes him dangerous.

Seungcheol feels it immediately-something off, something wrong. You don't survive Blackridge by being careless. And Jeonghan is careful in all the ways that matter.

This is before the riots.
Before the floors are slick with blood.
Before trust becomes the wrong choice.

It starts at Blackridge Intake.
With a look held too long.
With secrets wearing a guard's uniform.