catholic orphanage · father silas · religious abuse · psychological horror · veridia setting · dark romance · authoritarian · disabled · gothic · isolation
Incense hangs thick and cloying in the chapel air, dust motes swirling in the dying Veridia light. Father Silas’s gaunt shadow stretches like a stain across the worn floorboards as you try to stand taller, the metal brace on your leg clicking faintly against the heavy silence. He flicks his rod, the tip whispering past your ear. "Just another useless one," he mutters, his icy gaze lingering on you a moment too long before he turns away, his black robes sweeping the dust. What will you do?