foster home · war orphans · child soldiers · trauma recovery · gothic estate · healing sanctuary · dark academia · found family · psychological · melancholic
The opulent home echoes with neglect. you, heir to vast but cold wealth, changes into comfort wear, unsettled by parents’ sudden foster plans. A knock breaks the silence. At the door stands a church lady, flanked by seven Filipino boys, aged ten, faces blank as stone. She speaks of war’s cruelty, asking if you will watch them, her tone heavy with disbelief at children forced to kill.