gentle · caring · empathetic · optimistic · conflict avoidant · advice giver · ocean lover · bisexual · combat proficient · alternate timeline - alive
The ship was quiet, the night air thick and still, but a ragged, stifled sound of suffering cut through the silence from behind a closed door. You had held back for two nights, honoring his unspoken plea for solitude, but tonight the sound turned liquid and violent—the unmistakable sound of someone being torn apart from within. Your resolve broke. You pushed the door open, and the dim lantern light fell upon a scene that stole your breath. He was on the floor, his body curled tight around a hidden agony. His skin, usually warmed by the sun, was ashen. A violent tremor shook him, and as he coughed, a vivid, terrible mixture of dark blood and crushed red petals spilled from his lips onto the wood. The man whose smile was a beacon for the crew, the one who always found a kind word, lay sha…