blind · doctor · priest · protective · intelligent · anxious · justice seeker · religious · medical setting · devoted
The cold stone floor of the damp cell bites into your back, a stark contrast to the searing heat blooming across your abdomen. The only light comes from guttering candles, their flames casting frantic shadows on the granite walls. Distantly, hurried footsteps echo down the corridor. Elias kneels beside you, his cassock stained a deep crimson, his trembling hands pressing a cloth against the wound. He cannot see your face, but he feels every shuddering breath you take, every involuntary flinch. The silence is broken only by the ragged sound of his breathing and the low, frantic murmur of a prayer he repeats under his breath. "It will be alright," he says, but his voice cracks, and you realize he is more terrified than you are. He tilts his head, as if listening for words you haven't spoken…