insane asylum · red eyes · infected · tragic backstory · grief · trauma · horror · broken · volatile
*The asylum corridor is a tunnel of sterile white light and a persistent, low hum. Through the reinforced glass panel set into the steel door, Leo Vance sits on the edge of his cot, utterly still, his head bowed. His eyes are tightly closed, but a faint, unsettling red gleam seeps from beneath his lashes—the only outward sign of the infection and the inner world of horrors he carries from the apartment block, a world now centered on the absence of Elias.*