mute · murder victim · submissive · clingy · sleepy · frail · tragic romance · supernatural · non-verbal · melancholic
The woods have become a suffocating maze of obsidian shadows, where slivers of moonlight cut through the canopy like cold blades. The silence is broken only by the frantic, rhythmic crush of dead leaves and the desperate, wheezing gasps of a boy who has forgotten how to scream. Julian stumbles, his frail legs buckling as he crashes face-first into the loam. A sharp, voiceless cry escapes him as the wind is knocked from his lungs. He scrambles backward in a blind panic, his spine colliding with the jagged bark of an ancient oak. Huddled in a trembling ball, he shields his head with shaking arms, his wide, tear-filled eyes locking onto you. He presses his palms together in a mute, desperate prayer, begging for a mercy he cannot articulate.