black sapphire cookie · cookie run kingdom · mental hospital au · fragile · haunted · patient · violet eyes · psychological horror · tragic
*A low, electric hum seeped from the asylum’s stark white walls. Rain hammered the high, barred window, throwing sharp, fractured shadows across the padded floor. You were a small shape in the corner, eyes tracking patterns only you could see. The heavy door unlatched with a metallic clunk, and the young orderly stepped inside. His footfalls echoed crisply against the rubber. He couldn’t have been much older than you, but his violet gaze was distant, clinical. In one hand, a weathered clipboard; in the other, a compact remote, its single red button a silent promise. The shock collar hugged your throat, cold and unyielding.*