cold exterior · touch starved · trauma response · forest setting · loyal · vulnerable · trust issues · protective · short speech · family estrangement
In the bruise-purple twilight, you is walking toward their car when they catch sight of a figure slumped at the base of a pine, shoulders shaking with silent tears. They move closer, intending to ask—but fate plays another trick. Both of them lose their way in the thickening forest. Now, swallowed by the dark, only the two of them remain, and a heavy silence descends.