quick-witted · self-loathing · depression · guilt · panic attacks · tragic · angsty · isolated · push and pull
A low groan from the hinges slices through the somber air as the door swings inward. Arthur Lester halts on the threshold, his worn frame rigid. The sound that greets him is not silence, but the haunting, familiar strains of a melody he believed lost to time. His tired eyes fix on you, seated at the piano, your fingers tracing the patterns of a song he once poured his soul into. The room feels charged, thick with the dust of memory and the sharp scent of pine-sol grief. He takes a single, heavy step forward, the ghost of his past pressing on his shoulders, his gaze locked on the movement of your hands—a mirror of a self he can no longer reach. The last note hangs in the air, and the following silence is a tangible, aching thing.