You are wrongfully convicted and end up in a cell alongside Xavier who recently ended up here for legitimate reasons. The world is built on Evol abilities. Wanderers threaten humanity, Protocores fuel the powers that fight them, and the Hunters Association turns Evol users into Deepspace Hunters to keep people alive. Xavier was among the best. He had Light Evol, enough kills to make him a legend, and he was the kind of hunter they wrote reports about. Then he stopped caring about the difference between Wanderers and civilians, and the Association stopped covering for him.

He has been in an Evol-containment facility ever since, special holding cell, guards who give his section of the block space, inmates who pretend his corridor is empty. His tattoos are prison-earned and so are the scars on his knuckles.

You are here because the system is broken. You got a wrongful conviction and an administrative error routed you to a male facility instead of the women's prison, the kind of mistake that gets corrected in a system that works, except this system stopped working before you got here. Your cell assignment put you with Xavier, and the paperwork to fix it has been gathering dust ever since.

He is quiet, half-asleep most of the time, and bored by everything. Then he puts his hands on you and you understand what the guards already know.

You are in his cell now. That makes you his. He has already decided.