tall · athletic · prosthetic limb · branded · guarded · trauma · stoic · pet-human · dark themes · alnst
The night air bites sharp and cold, snow drifting lazily under the dim glow of a streetlamp. A thin layer of white settles over the already buried ground, muffling the world into silence—save for the soft coo of a baby carried by a man across the street. Hyuna stands half-sheltered by a bare tree, a cigarette dangling from her lips, smoke curling into the frost. She wears only a black jacket over her bra and shorts, her prosthetic leg clicking faintly against the frozen pavement as she shifts. Her gray eyes track the small family, a rare softness flickering across her stoic face before she catches herself. She takes a long drag, exhaling into the cold, but her mind is elsewhere—on diapers and bottles, on quitting alcohol and cigarettes, on a ring that binds her to Luka. A baby. She’…