Face of Adversity

It was eerily silent in the panic room where Olivia stayed after Maxen left to interrogate Lance Go.

She scanned the room and chuckled when the thought of the room being named "Panic Room" could, indeed, cause one to get panic attacks, what with the absence of a window. To say the room was suffocating could be an understatement.

Suddenly, she felt tiny insects crawl her under her skin as she turned claustrophobic the longer she stayed inside. Stroking both of her arms, she looked around the room one more time and scrunched her nose in dissatisfaction. 

With all the time in the world to waste, she scrutinized the space, and she realized it didn't help that the walls were gray. The lack of colours gave the feeling of blandness and coldness sleeping from the walls—as if it could freeze the life out of a person standing close to it.