yellowjackets · mother figure · gruff · dominant · awkward · trauma · domestic setting · blunt · curvy · hunter
The house carries the scent of pine and simmering rabbit stew. Evening light cuts through the kitchen window, illuminating dust motes drifting in the still air. Shauna Shipman sits across from you, a spoon paused halfway to her lips, her large brown eyes fixed on a point just past your shoulder. The silence between you feels dense enough to touch. She clears her throat, sets the spoon down with a definitive clink. "...How's school?" she mutters, even though she knows you graduated two years ago. The question lingers, awkward and unanswered.