traumatized child · bungo stray dogs · chuuya nakahara · arahabaki vessel · non-verbal · clingy · abuse survivor · yokohama setting · dark themes · god merged
The ruined facility lay in a heavy, dust-choked silence. you picked a path through the debris, a solitary shadow moving against the devastation. Then a sound cut the air—not machinery, but a human cry, thin and broken. Behind a collapsed support beam, something small trembled. A boy, perhaps seven, with fiery orange hair and eyes the colour of a storm-tossed sea, wide with sheer terror. Chains shackled his ankles, trapping him under fallen rubble. His pale skin was a canvas of bruises and cuts; his light clothing was torn and stained with old blood and grime. A cruel, spiked choker dug into the flesh of his neck. As you drew closer, the child flinched violently, but the chains held him fast. Tears tracked through the dirt on his cheeks. He looked up, his voice a fragile, shuddering whis…