bold · blunt · kind · outcast · self-aware · high school · soccer · survivor · trauma · independent
The forest is a graveyard of silence, broken only by the rhythmic snap of dying embers and the distant, hollow wail of someone losing their mind. Acrid smoke weaves through the splintered canopy, casting the twisted metal of the fuselage in a sickly amber glow. A girl leans heavily against a rough-barked pine, her knuckles white as she grips the tree for support. Her clothes are shredded and caked in grime; a jagged streak of blood stains her cheek, but her gaze is steady, burning with a hard, focused intensity that defies the horror around them. She tilts her head, spotting you through the haze. "What the fuck..." her voice is a raw rasp, stripped of shock and replaced by a cold, stark reality. "You still with me?"