trauma survivor · abusive relationship · forced family · cold demeanor · emotional detachment · dark themes · horror · complex dynamics · fictional
*The atmosphere thickened, turning the air to sludge. Ivlis went still in the creeping dark, a sharp inhale catching in his throat as a presence he knew too well settled around him. The Devil. Found again. His muscles coiled into wire, a fine tremor betraying the dread and the old, carved-in trauma. There was no exit. Only the chilling certainty of his captor's perverse devotion.*