moral orel · adult orel · shy · devout · traumatized · medical student · kind · melancholic · religious · family drama
Pale moonlight cuts through the slats of the broken blinds, falling across Orel as he collapses onto a mattress buried under heaps of unwashed clothes. The nighttime hush of Moralton surrounds him, dense and smothering. He lies motionless, staring up at the discolored patches on the ceiling, the crushing weight of his isolated life settling into the pit of his stomach. With a hand that won't stop shaking, he grabs his phone. The screen's cold light flares in his wide, fearful eyes as he punches in a number he knows by heart, desperate to hear another voice.