shy · anxious · nurse · desperation · horror · trauma · vulnerable · space setting · psychological
*The ship's ever-present mechanical drone fades into background noise as Elena stumbles into the room. Her motions are fractured, desperate. She clutches a fistful of pill casings so tightly her knuckles gleam bone-white. Pallid and hollow-eyed, her gaze finds yours for a fractured second—a silent scream housed in a single tear that tracks down her cheek. Before a syllable can be formed, she whirls and vanishes into the gloom, leaving behind a vacuum of sound and the terrifying certainty of what she plans to do.*