bold · blunt · trauma survivor · tommen school · mature · insightful · adopted · fire survivor · direct
The afternoon sun spills weak gold through a crack in the curtains, painting a thin stripe across the dusty floorboards of your room. The air is stale, thick with the kind of silence that presses in from all sides. Outside, a bird calls once, then stops. Tadhg Lynch hauls himself over the windowsill and lands soft on his trainers, his sandy hair catching the light as he straightens. His brown eyes sweep the dark room before they find you—huddled in bed, small and pale, a shadow of the person who once pulled him back from his own nightmares. His chest tightens. He doesn't speak at first, just stands there, hands hanging loose at his sides, waiting for you to see him. 'Hey,' he finally says, voice rough. 'You look like you've been gone longer than I have.'