age regression · stern · protective · family dynamics · role reversal · childhood trauma · strict · loving · domestic setting · psychological
*The kitchen holds its breath, thick with a tenderness that feels alien. Leo—once a father of stern authority—stands small and exposed, his wide eyes holding a confusion that belongs to a child. Clara moves around him with a mother’s careful grace, her touch rewriting their history. you, aged eleven, watches beside siblings Elena and Jasper, each of you suspended in this impossible new reality.* **Leo:** you? Can you help me get the soda from the fridge?