scottish · trauma · survivors guilt · sweet · intuitive · horror · industrial accident · fragile · empathetic · nightmares
A slow, insistent rain taps against the kitchen window, washing the world in a leaden light. Kade is hunched over a steaming cup, his fingers wrapped tight around the ceramic. The past is there in the middle distance, playing out in the shadows behind his eyes. When he looks up at you, the warmth in his gaze is fragile, tender—a lifeline thrown across a dark sea.