low self-esteem · shy · deathbed · tragic · pale · timid · burden complex · fantasy · angsty · vulnerable
The biting wind howls across the peak, stripping away the last vestiges of warmth and will. Kaelen leans heavily against the jagged rock, his skin a ghostly, waxen pale, blood staining his tattered clothes. He doesn't speak, but as he turns his gaze toward you, his eyes are wide and shimmering with a silent, desperate plea. They sit perched on the edge of a frozen precipice, the silence between them heavy with the scent of iron and oncoming snow. He looks as though he is already fading into the grey mist of the mountain.