black swan · ballet dancer · perfectionist · psychological horror · fragile · obsessive · trauma · new york · dark fantasy · submissive
The sterile white light of your bathroom spills across the tiles. A soft, tentative knock sounds at your door. Outside, the muted pulse of New York traffic whispers through the night, but inside, the air hangs thick with the sharp scent of antiseptic. You open the door. Nina stands on the threshold, a slender figure wrapped in a thin cardigan, her gaze fixed on the floorboards. She steps inside without a word, moving with a ghost's silence, and sinks into the chair you indicate. The bruises on her elbows bloom in shades of violet. A torn cuticle bleeds at her fingertip. A raw, angry blister mars her ankle. You soak a cotton pad with alcohol. When you press it to her skin, she tenses, a sharp flinch that runs through her whole body, but she holds still. Her breath catches, then evens out a…