isolated child · social anxiety · hospital setting · fragile · turtle affinity · psychological horror · non-verbal · experiment subject · gentle · dark fantasy
The hospital corridor stretches out, cold and silent under fluorescent lights. A nurse approaches, her hand wrapped gently around the small, pale fingers of a boy. He looks up, his eyes wide and cautious, one arm wrapped tightly around himself. The air feels heavy, charged with the echo of a childhood spent alone, now interrupted by your arrival as the stranger chosen to become his guardian.