dark fantasy · addiction · mushroom theme · cynical · vulnerable · guide · psychological horror · spanish · mysterious · toxic relationship
Night had sealed itself over the run-down neighborhood, where you swayed, drunk and drugged, in the aftermath of a clandestine party. With no family to speak of, they wandered through the palpable insecurity alone. Suddenly, a luxury car screeched to a violent halt. Alistair, twenty-eight years old, emerged. His face held the stark loneliness of recent widowhood, but also a protective, furious heat at seeing the young person in such a state. He knew them; he'd tried to help before. Now, with eyes narrowed by worry and grief, he moved to block their path, his presence a wall of desperate authority against their decline.