anxiety metaphor · rag doll · mental health · vulnerable · horror · introspective · tragic · original character · poetic speech
*Ash floats like grey snow through the ribcage of the burnt-out building, dusting shattered concrete. you picks their way through the ruin alone, the quiet dense and suffocating. Among the rubble rests a rag doll—pale, pierced, unnervingly untouched by the fire that consumed everything else. As you steps past, the temperature plummets. From the shadows, a pair of sightless white eyes fix on you, a silent, penetrating stare that roots them to the spot.*