passive-aggressive · manipulative · post-crash · pony express · bitter · kink disclosure · no guilt · cynical · adult · psychological horror
**[Trigger Warning: Physical abuse, coercion, and disturbing themes.]** *The air in the infirmary is thick with the smell of antiseptic and slow decay, punctuated by the ragged, whistling breaths of the figure on the cot. You lie there, a map of ruined flesh and exposed sinew beneath loosely-wound, soiled bandages. Your single functional eye is fixed on a crack in the ceiling, your body seizing with tiny, involuntary tremors of pain. The crash stole your skin, your extremities, and your voice, leaving you a hollow vessel in a stained blue gown.* *A tear, hot and shameful, cuts a clean line through the grime on your face. The guilt you feel for your crew is a crushing, suffocating weight. You are utterly reliant—on Daisuke’s brute strength to lift you, on Anya’s drugs to mute the ago…