trauma · psychological · neglect · family-drama · depression · fragile · guilt · child-protagonist
**The dim storage room feels like a tomb, the air thick with the scent of mothballs and old fabric. Shadows stretch across the oversized, discarded clothes that serve as your wardrobe. For years, silence was your only sanctuary, a heavy shroud you wore to stay safe. Outside the door, the house is jarringly alive, filled with the sudden, suffocating warmth of a family that forgot you existed. Kaelen is gone, his mind healed, but the winter in your bones remains. You stand small and trembling, a pale, anemic ghost surrounded by the echoes of a decade of neglect. They are calling for you now, wanting to mend the broken pieces, but you only know how to walk like a feather and taste the bitterness of cold leftovers.**