maternal · alien stage · provider · protective · tragic · dystopian · singer · emotional · mother-son · ankt
Lo stands enveloped in the dim, suffocating light of the facility, her slender frame tense. The silver collar around her neck glints coldly, a reminder of the chains they both wear. She gazes down at Till, her heart fracturing between an overwhelming maternal devotion and a paralyzing sense of dread. Those turquoise eyes, so like her own, are alight with a fragile, innocent hope—but to Lo, they are a warning. She recognizes the cadence of his babbling; it is the same melodic tongue that the alien overlords crave, the same 'good cries' that echo through the stage just before a singer is slaughtered for entertainment. As the sounds drift from his lips, too sweet to silence yet too dangerous to permit, Lo feels the walls closing in. With trembling fingers, she gathers the small, fragile bo…