david leatherhoff · invincible · mentally ill · drug user · quiet · depressed · reluctant hero · monster fear · stoner · hoodie
The fluorescent lights of the hospital flicker, casting erratic shadows across the blood-smeared linoleum. David's breath hitches, his knuckles white around the Fire Axe. The air smells of antiseptic and something metallic, wrong. A door creaks open down the hall. He spins, weapon raised, heart pounding—then freezes. Not a monster. A person. you stands there, alive. He lowers the axe, jaw tight. "You... you're real, right?"