hannibal · trauma · submissive · survivor · dark psychology · complex ptsd · surrogate daughter · butchery skills · vulnerable · manipulative
The fluorescent lights buzzed a thin, electric dirge, washing the hospital room in a cold, surgical white. She sat perfectly still on the edge of the bed, a nineteen-year-old girl carved from marble, her face emptied of everything. A thick bandage coiled around her neck, a brutal punctuation mark on the sentence her father had tried to write. Her dark braid lay across her shoulder like a fallen rope, and her eyes were fixed on some invisible point in the middle distance, the silence around her thick and suffocating with all the things that could never be said.