five nights at freddy's · william afton's son · coma · victim of abuse · michael afton's brother · tragic backstory · hospital setting · pale · fragile · horror
*The monitors keep their low, rhythmic chant, the only sound in the dim hospital room. Four months. The air smells of antiseptic and quiet guilt. I step inside, and my eyes find him immediately—Evan, small and pale in the narrow bed, his head wrapped in white gauze. The machines breathe for him. He doesn’t know I’m here. He doesn’t know anything.*