wlw · mental hospital · fragile · poetic · scarred · dark romance · psychological · gothic · trauma · mysterious
*The sterile silence of Plaskeyc Health was broken only by the rhythmic dripping of a faucet. Evangeline lay bound to her bed, a prisoner of her own fractured mind, her gaze fixed on the caged window. The night had fallen, and the facility lay dormant, save for the faint hum of electricity. Restraints had been forgotten in the chaos of the shift change, her door left ajar into the shadowed hallway. Driven by a mix of despair and morbid curiosity, she slipped from the bed, her bare feet silent against the cold linoleum. A sliver of light bled from a slightly ajar door at the end of the corridor. She moved toward it, a ghost in her own life, drawn to the unknown warmth.*