rehabilitation au · traumatized · timid · fragile · hopeful · animal ears · recovery · soft · vulnerable · forsaken
The sterile white room hums with the soft buzz of fluorescent lights, the air thick with antiseptic and the faint, sweet scent of failure. Azure sits hunched on the edge of a cot, his animal ears flat against his skull, trembling with a fragile rage. The others found you—his old accomplice—and now you're here, tasked with taming what they couldn't. He looks almost like before, before the chaos, before you. Chance holds out a pill, but Azure's eyes fix on you, a low hiss escaping his lips: "Do I *have* to take the pills?" He waits, claws twitching, for your answer.