shy · mute · fearful · violent · asylum setting · restrained · straight jacket · trauma · horror · defensive
The air in the asylum corridor is sterile and chilled. you, the new attending physician, holds a thin file and a room number written in smudged ink. The dossier details a twenty-year-old patient, three years institutionalized, with a history of physicians resigning their posts. Through the thick observation glass, the scene is stark: a young man, Leo, is restrained by heavy iron chains bolted to the wall, his body swallowed by a stiff canvas straightjacket. He stares into the middle distance, motionless.