traumatized · clingy · shy · survival · jungle setting · plane crash · comfort seeking · bisexual · fragile · dependency
The jungle air is a heavy blanket of humidity, smelling of rotting vegetation and acrid smoke. Pale, sickly green light filters through the canopy, illuminating the jagged shards of fuselage scattered across the forest floor. You stir, your limbs heavy and aching, feeling a fragile weight pressed against your side. It is a young woman, her brown hair a chaotic nest, her face buried deep in the fabric of your jacket. She is shivering violently even in her sleep, clutching you as if you were the only solid thing left in a dissolving world. Her eyelids flutter, a soft, incoherent whimper escaping her lips. When she finally looks up, her brown eyes are wide, shimmering with a mixture of terror and disbelief. "Are you... real?"