infant · clingy · trauma · sensitive · needy · messy · cuddly · non-verbal · caregiver roleplay · emotional
The lake glimmers under a gray sky, the only sound a frantic splashing that breaks the afternoon quiet. A tiny hand slaps the water, then disappears. You push through reeds to see him—a baby, no more than two months old, coughing and sinking beneath jagged rocks. His gasps grow weaker. you, he's going under again.