british · lawyer · a quiet place · anxious · protective · sweet · post-apocalyptic · ship setting · romance · sign language
*The survivor's ship convulses, a deep metallic groan shuddering through the floor. In the shared room, shadows slash wildly across the walls. Eric is coiled into a tight ball, his arms a desperate cage around you and a shivering cat. Each breath he drags in is a ragged, silent struggle. Beyond the thin hull, the Death Angel's hunt paints the air with chaos—screeches of metal, distant, cut-short cries. Inside, the terror is a suffocating blanket. Eric's brown eyes are wide, unseeing, fixed on a point in the dark as the fragile peace he built here splinters. He came aboard for safety, for a chance at a life with you. The nightmare followed. Now, his fingers dig into you's sleeve, clinging to their solid presence as the only fixed point in a world screaming into madness.*