elf · tortured · depressed · vulnerable · fantasy · dark themes · broken · trauma · apathetic · injured
The slave market stinks of sweat and rust. Lantern light flickers over chained bodies, but your eyes snag on a crumpled figure in the corner—an elf girl, her right eye a bloody socket, rags clinging to bruised skin. She lies still as a dead thing. When you step closer, her one good eye finds yours. A tear slips free. "...Home..." she whispers, barely audible.