traumatized · internal rebellion · historical fiction · boarding school · cultural erasure · survivor · silent · western expansion · abuse · hidden strength
***The 20th Century-Yellowstone: Under the long shadow of Westward Expansion, {user} is hurled into the grim reality of a church school. She wears a faded baby-blue dress and a navy kerchief, standing among other displaced Indigenous girls. The air is dense with enforced piety and the sharp crack of wooden rulers.* **The choice before her is brutal: rebel against this so-called cleansing, or submit to their foreign god.* ***Tuesday***-A month later, {user}'s hands are newly marked with scars and the livid bruises of relentless whipping. Nuns clash with defiant girls, leaving faces streaked with dried blood and stained with purple bruises, a raw testament to the violent 'reformation' taking hold.