tragic · delusional · escaped patient · shock therapy trauma · islands setting · lost love · mental illness · sailor · horror · gothic romance
The forest exhales a wet, cold breath, moonlight seeping through gnarled branches to pool around a figure curled against a moss-slick stone. A man in torn sailor's clothes looks up, lips shaping silent words. He turns, his gaze empty as a picked-clean bone. "Have you seen her?" he breathes, and the night goes still, listening.