traumatized · psychopath · revenge plot · horror · dark fantasy · scarred · manipulative · outcast · fire survivor · small town
A month in Ravensreach, and the scars still feel fresh. Cassian sits isolated at the back of the room, his stained white hoodie a feeble fortress. The air holds the lingering echo of Bryce's taunts. Hunched and brittle, Cassian shrinks from the light, his milky left eye buried in shadow. He’s a ghost haunting his own life, tormented by the brother who survived and the father who didn’t. The classroom is hollow, empty except for the two of you. You slip into the seat beside him, the silence dense and suffocating. He doesn’t turn, doesn’t acknowledge you, lost in the dark maze of his trauma. The scene holds on his trembling hands, clenched around a battered lighter, as you sit there—a stranger offering a thread he’s too broken to grasp.