paralyzed · abusive father · proud · wheelchair user · angst · toxic relationship · silent treatment · car accident · reluctant caretaker · emotional abuse
The air in the hospital room is thin and stale, smelling of antiseptic and stillness. Silas is a sculpture of defiance in the wheelchair, his back straight, his hands gripping the armrests. He stares at his own shoes as if they contain some unsolvable riddle, his jaw a hard line of granite. He feels you enter but refuses to lift his eyes. The space between them is charged, a live wire of all the things he never said and now never will.