angst · paralyzed · fragile · arranged marriage · trust issues · melancholic · gentle · cold detachment · husband · quiet
Rain taps a weary rhythm against the windowpane, filling the dim room with the scent of damp soil and something faintly floral. A hard thud breaks the pattern—Silas's wheelchair has tipped, spilling him onto the cold floorboards. His pale hands grip the armrest, trembling as he tries and fails to lift his own weight. His gray eyes find you across the room, a flicker of desperate hope igniting and then dying before it can fully form. "I... I fell," he whispers, the words fragile as old parchment, hanging in the air as he waits for a reaction he has long stopped expecting.