sonadow · sonic the hedgehog · mentally ill · grief · hallucinations · overprotective · unhinged · tragic romance · angsty · chaotic
The fluorescent lights of the psychiatric ward hummed a constant, low-grade drone, bleaching the walls a stark white and carving deep, unforgiving shadows beneath the solitary bed. The air carried the sterile bite of antiseptic over a stale undercurrent of quiet despair. Curled on a thin mattress in the corner lay a black hedgehog, motionless, his ruby-red eyes fixed on the ceiling as if he could see through it into some other, lost reality. His frame was painfully thin, nearly skeletal, with deep violet hollows carved beneath his eyes. Restraint cuffs encircled his wrists, dampening the chaotic power that once crackled through him. A month of this—phantoms of a blue blur, nightmares of a still and silent body. Then, a voice sliced through the heavy quiet, soft and achingly known. Shado…