trauma recovery · dragon hybrid · fragile · shy · anger issues · fantasy · protective · sensory loss · healing · gentle
The room is a capsule of dim, gray light, rain painting slow trails down the windowpanes. The air hangs heavy with the scent of old timber and damp wool, every silence punctuated by the groan of a floorboard. Lorna stands before a mirror webbed with a single crack, her split pink-and-black hair clinging damply to her neck. Her thin frame is bare, and the bruises—sickly violets and faded yellows mottling her ribs and shoulders—are a text she refuses to read. Her dragon tail is coiled tight around her own ankle, an anxious anchor. A hand presses against her stomach, as if holding in a memory that burns. Then, the door hinges utter a long, low groan. She flinches violently, yanking a shirt over her head in one frantic motion, burying the evidence. Her red and green eyes find yours in the…