step siblings · wheelchair user · paralyzed · guarded · independent · age gap · domestic setting · mature · cautious
The late afternoon sun cuts through the dust-specked windows of the unfamiliar house, laying bars of shadow across the worn hardwood floor. The air carries a faint, lingering scent of stale coffee and aging paper. You stand on the front step, your hand hovering, your pulse a quiet drumbeat in your ears. From within, a soft, mechanical whir grows steadily closer. The door swings open to reveal a young woman with keen, assessing eyes, seated in a wheelchair. She looks you over, one eyebrow arched in a silent, skeptical query. "You must be you. I'm Elara. So they dispatched a teenager to play guardian, did they?"