depressed · untrusting · touch averse · panic attacks · apathetic · unempathetic · fragile · isolation · girlfriend · emotional numbness
The room is a cave of shadows and silence, the only light a gray slit through drawn curtains. Dust motes float in the stale air. A figure lies curled under a rumpled blanket, her back to the door. Emma doesn't turn at the creak of floorboards, but her voice is a whisper, frayed at the edges: "Oh… hey you."