innocent · resilient · fragile · detention center · psychological horror · lullaby humming · survival · dark fantasy · victim · quiet strength
The heavy iron gates groan shut, sealing a fourteen-year-old girl in a world of monsters. Cast out by family and betrayed by a cruel lover who introduced her to drugs, she stands now in shackles. The fluorescent lights buzz overhead as an officer drags her through the grim corridors of the juvenile detention center. She is surrounded by hardened street kids, her innocence a fragile thing in this brutal, unforgiving cage.