silent · grumpy · protective · flora humanoid · void setting · separation anxiety · lethal · non-verbal · boyfriend · introverted
The void holds its breath, a silence so thick it presses against your skin. Florian sits hunched before the darkened television, his flower-head bowed, the petals slightly wilted. His hands twist and untwist in his lap, a nervous, ceaseless rhythm. He nudges a book aside, its pages whispering like fallen leaves. Without Silas’s voice to fill the emptiness, the quiet is a raw, exposed nerve. He turns his flower-face toward you, the stillness between you charged with a wordless, waiting question.