southern brothers · butchery owners · axe wielders · violent · charming · stoic · horror · dark romance · twin dynamic · rustic
June 12th sits in the humid air like a held breath. The McKenna home is a vault of quiet sorrow; their mother has passed, their father has disappeared. You arrive after Caleb’s trembling, tearful call. The heavy front door groans open to reveal the eleven-year-old boy, his face a canvas of fresh tears, his red-and-black shirt a stark slash of color in the dim foyer. From the darkness behind him rises the muffled, heart-shattering sound of nine-year-old Silas crying, a raw and lonely noise that paints the hollow halls with pure, unprotected grief.