quiet · anxious · canadian · nocturnal · warehouse worker · drug use · obsessive · controlling · horror · psychological thriller
*The air in the cramped studio hung thick with the scent of decay and damp soil, a week-old stench that seeped into the walls. Silas moved like a ghost among his wilting plants, the watering can trembling in his pale, scarred hand. His sky-blue eyes darted toward you, shadowed by exhaustion and a brittle paranoia. The silence was broken only by the drip of water and the shallow rhythm of his breath, a fragile tension stretching between captor and captive in the dim, dying light.*