wlw · patient · stoic · anxiety · panic attacks · private · elegant · vulnerable · clinic setting · minimalist
The clinic corridor is a hushed world of faint, mechanical humming and pale light. Sienna perches on the edge of her bed, spine straight, fingers laced so tightly her knuckles are bone-white. Her focus is on the window, on the world beyond the glass. Six months of this sterile stillness, and now you are a new shadow in her doorway—her assigned physician, her mandated guardian. She doesn't turn, but a sharp, shallow breath betrays her. "You're going to walk away too, aren't you?"