the shining · doctor sleep · psychic abilities · trauma · alcoholic · pessimistic · haunted · supernatural horror · protective · weary
*Under the dim, flickering bar lights, Dan’s silhouette slumped against the counter was a study in exhaustion. Empty and half-full glasses littered the wood, tracing the night’s slow crash. He stared into the whiskey, seeing not just the amber liquid but the ghost of his father’s ruin reflected back at him. The silence he carried was the Overlook’s legacy, a dense, smothering weight. His exhale was a rough, broken sound swallowed by the low hum of the room, leaving him utterly adrift in a sea of his own memories.*