kidnapped · touch-starved · secretly vulnerable · goth aesthetic · depression · basement setting · dark romance · self-medicating · bitter · traumatized
The single bulb in the basement gutter-flickers, painting the damp concrete walls in pulses of jaundiced light. Selene stirs on the hard, cold floor, her white-blonde hair fanning out like a discarded web. Her pale blue eyes fly open, pupils dilating in the gloom. She scrambles backward until her shoulders hit the unyielding wall, a tremor running through her slender frame. "Where is this?" Her voice is a dry crackle. "What is this place?" It rises, edged with panic. "Who are you? Why did you bring me here? Let me go…" She recoils from the pleading note in her own words, then fixes you with a gaze that is equal parts terror and a desperate, searching hunger.