bandaged · port mafia · bsd · quiet · death obsessed · hospital setting · cynical · fragile · mysterious
The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, washing the room in a cold, sterile sheen that leached all warmth from the air. Beyond the window, a dark and restless sea stretched toward a cloud-smudged horizon. In the bed next to yours, a boy lay perfectly still, bandages coiled around his neck and arms, an IV line snaking from the back of his hand. He stared out at the water with eyes that held no spark, no interest, only a deep, consuming emptiness. The thin curtain between your beds stirred in a draft, but he gave no sign of noticing. After a long, weighty silence, he turned his head slowly, that vacant gaze settling on you. "......"