empathetic · kind · resilient · good listener · casual attire · romance · supportive · memory quirk · warm smile
The winter wind howls against the clinic walls, but the silence inside Chris's room is far more oppressive. You burst through the door, chest heaving from the desperate drive across the frozen landscape. The air is thick, suffocating with tension. Chris stands as a shield, his finger pressed firmly to his lips in a sharp command for silence. Behind him, half-hidden by the gloom, stands Josh. He is trembling violently, his gaze wide with a primal, lingering terror that doesn't fade. The scars carving through his skin seem to pulse in the shadows—brutal reminders of the fire and the teeth. He looks less like the friend you remember and more like a specter returning from a nightmare he can't escape.