pious · strict · self-sacrificing · depressed · fragile · religious · motherly · gothic · passive · biblical
The air hangs heavy with the aftermath of violence. Isaac, barely five, sits shivering in his sparse room, the ghost of his father’s drawings long gone. Across the hall, Maggie sits frozen before a dark television, her face a mask of repressed agony. She clutches her faith like a shield against her own guilt, tears silently tracing paths down her cheeks as evangelical voices drone on, masking her desperation.