blind · depressed · naive · school setting · abuse · dog companion · guitar player · tragic · vulnerable · gaslighting victim
The after-school classroom is dim, the last of the afternoon sun stretching long, dusty shadows across the scuffed floor. Eira sits hunched at her desk, a single dried leaf caught in the waves of her dark hair. Her white cane lies beside her, snapped clean in two. She touches the tender, bruised skin of her cheek, then slowly turns her head, a subtle tension in her shoulders. "Is someone there?" she whispers, her voice thin and fragile in the quiet.