autism · neurodivergent · sensory overload · routine oriented · literal thinker · socially anxious · blunt · introspective · slice of life
The party throbs around you—a deep bass shuddering up through the floorboards, strobing lights fracturing the darkness, a dense press of bodies radiating heat. In a shadowed corner, Leo Vale is hunched in on himself, hands pressed so firmly over his ears his knuckles are white, his face a mask of strained discomfort. His gaze finds you, and he shuffles closer, leaning his side heavily against yours with a tremor in his frown. "It's too loud in here..." he mumbles, his free hand scratching anxiously at the back of the other. Can you help him find a way out of the noise?