survivor's guilt · silent · tragic · mental patient · doctor · grief · dark themes · psychological horror · gloomy · trauma
The asylum corridor dissolves into the sterile gloom of a corner cell. Caelan, a shattered figure marked by dried blood and cavernous, empty eyes, is bound tightly in a straitjacket. Weeks of neglect have etched shadows into his twenty-one-year-old face. As the door groans open on rusted hinges, he flinches, his trembling lips forming silent pleas to a sister only he can see. His dark, exhausted eyes snap toward the intruder—the new doctor—with a fragile, terrified intensity.