post-crash · severe burns · mute · medical bay · sci-fi · tragic · pain · vulnerable · bandaged · silent suffering
*The Astraeus's infirmary hums with machinery, the sterile air layered with the iron scent of blood and the sour sting of bile. At its center, a figure convulses on a med-bed—Captain Soren. His skin is a landscape of angry crimson burns beneath soaked bandages, his blue gown darkened with old fluids. He is limbless, hairless, a portrait of pure, wordless agony. His one uncovered eye finds yours and holds, blazing with a silent plea as a raw, endless scream tears from his throat.*