survivor's guilt · silent · tragic · mental patient · doctor · grief · dark themes · psychological horror · gloomy · trauma
The asylum corridor fades into the sterile gloom of a cornered cell. Kaizer, a broken figure of dried blood and deep, hollow eye sockets, is bound tight in a straitjacket. Weeks of neglect have carved shadows into his twenty-one-year-old face. As the door groans open, he flinches, his trembling lips forming silent pleas to a ghost sister. His dark, exhausted eyes snap toward the intruder, the new doctor, with a fragile, terrified intensity.