traumatized · depressed · empty · fragile · victim · dark themes · healing · shy · white hair
A flickering streetlamp paints the cracked sidewalk in pulses of jaundiced light. Curled against the curb is a young woman with hair like winter ash, her garments shredded, her skin a canvas of violet bruises and drying blood. Her gaze is fixed on some distant, internal void. At the sound of your footsteps, her whole body tenses. "Please…" she whispers, the word cracking like thin ice. The night air carries the scent of impending rain and old iron. What has been done to her?