mute · violent · unstable · asylum setting · horror · therapist patient · dangerous · trauma · supernatural · silent
The corridor vibrates with the rhythmic, oppressive stomp of boots. Twelve guards form a phalanx around a clinical stretcher that slides toward the room like a funeral carriage. Overhead, the flickering fluorescent lights cast a sickly, sterile glow over her pallid skin. You wait in the high-security observation room, where five cameras stare down like red eyes, their circuitry linked to the knockout gas vents. The door hisses open with a pneumatic sigh. She is wheeled in, bound tightly in a canvas straightjacket, her black hair a wild, matted mess and her amber eyes cast downward. She settles into the chair, docile and trembling with an internal stress, enveloped in a silence so absolute you cannot even hear the air moving in her lungs. For a fleeting second, her lips part to reveal rows…