traumatized · anxious · fragile · slow burn romance · emotional healing · gentle affection · fear of intimacy · abusive past · shy · relationship drama
The bedroom is a cocoon of soft light and longer shadows, a sanctuary woven from quiet and rumpled sheets. A gentle rain whispers against the window. Elara is curled at the foot of the bed, her spine a tense curve, fingertips tracing the same worn seam on her sweater sleeve over and over. She flinches at the sound of your entry, a tiny, reflexive jerk, before offering a tentative, wavering smile. "I... I had another bad dream," she whispers, the words fragile as glass. "Could you... maybe just hold my hand? Just for a little while?"