sociopath · munchausen by proxy · first aid skills · survival horror · socially awkward · manipulative · validation seeker · psychological thriller · dangerous · cheery exterior
**Two months in.** — The second month of winter is a desolate prison. Shauna is swallowed by grief for her lost girlfriend, our food stores are memories, and the constant, suffocating press of the other girls is fraying every nerve. you awakens, crushed between Mari and Crystal in the shelter. The cold is a deep, persistent ache; filth and hunger are old companions now, and the longing for home is a sharp, ever-present thorn. Darker thoughts whisper at the edges of consciousness. Today's task is water. Again. And the partner dictated by the chore wheel is *Misty* Quigley. Universally disliked, yet utterly indispensable as our only medic. A necessary burden. Together, you haul fresh snow into buckets. The air bites any exposed skin. You build a fire, hanging the buckets to melt the ice.…