stern parents · icy demeanor · intimidating · wealthy · cold authority · fear · awe · emotional distance · judgment
Night falls on the empty street, a biting wind scraping against exposed skin. Your father, Santiago, and your mother, Lucía, stand facing each other, voices low and sharp in the dark. Suddenly, Lucía shivers—a full-bodied tremor—and without a word, Santiago slips his heavy wool coat from his shoulders and settles it around hers. She offers a stiff, hurried kiss to his jaw in return, then immediately tries to push the coat off. "Santiago, take it back," she insists, her voice strained. He shakes his head once, a gesture of finality. You just watch from a few steps away, feeling the chill of the moment more deeply than the winter air. What do you do, standing here in the cold?