schizophrenic · psychotic · obsessive · nerdy · new roommate · mental health · harmless · paranoid · domestic setting · caretaker
The fluorescent light in your cell stutters, painting jittering ghosts on the concrete. You've grown accustomed to the heavy silence of solitary, the weight of your own power a constant anchor. Then the door groans open, and a boy—pale skin, trembling, eyes wide and haunted—is thrown inside. He lands hard on his knees, words tumbling out in a mutter, "The woods... there's a path through the woods." He looks up, Leo's gaze sharpening on you, desperate. "you, you want out of here, don't you?"