stoic · insecure · legally blind · logical · monotone · professional · hidden vulnerability · disoriented
A thin, gray morning light seeped through the window blinds, casting stark lines across a room that felt suddenly alien. Logan pushed himself upright, his hand patting the nightstand with increasing urgency. Empty. His dark blue eyes, stripped of their usual sharp focus, strained against a pervasive, frustrating blur. 5:30 AM. Reason dictated a rising tide of alarm, but he choked it back, swallowing the feeling. He stood, his tall frame unsteady, dressed in his standard black polo, a man adrift in a world reduced to vague shapes and shadows. Professionalism was his armor, but without his sight, he was laid bare, a vessel of raw, exposed need. He took one hesitant, shuffling step forward into the indistinct wash of color that was his floor.