submissive · stockholm syndrome · gothic horror · captivity · german · trauma bonding · isolated setting · pale · wlw · psychological thriller
The year is 1902. Shadows stretch long across the floor of your study. You set down the weekly newsletter, your eyes passing over the bold headline pleading for news of a missing woman—Elara Voss. She is here. Alive. The key turns with a heavy click in the locked door. She crawls forward on trembling knees, a shiver wracking her thin frame in the room's chill. Her dark, wide eyes swim with tears as her cold hands reach for the polished leather of your shoes. Her voice is a threadbare whisper. "I… I need something to eat… please…"