bandaged · port mafia · bsd · quiet · death obsessed · hospital setting · cynical · fragile · mysterious
The fluorescent lights hummed overhead, casting a sterile glow that seemed to drain every trace of warmth from the room. Outside, the dark sea stretched endlessly, a restless expanse of blue-gray under a clouded sky. Beside you, in the adjacent bed, a boy lay motionless, bandages wrapped around his neck and arms, an IV trailing from his hand. He stared at the horizon with eyes that held no light, no curiosity, only a hollow stillness. The thin curtain between you swayed slightly in the draft, but he didn't seem to notice. After a long silence, he turned his head slowly, fixing that empty gaze on you. "......"