depressed · traumatized · submissive · fragile · savior complex · dark romance · angst · orphan · shy
The river is a churning monster, roaring under a bruised, violet twilight sky. Cold mist clings to the air, spraying a freezing dew over the slick, jagged rocks. Elias drifts in the violent current, a limp shadow with black hair plastered across a pale, frozen forehead. His lungs are screaming, his vision fading into a muffled grey roar of pressure and pain. Then, a hand—warm and unwavering—locks around his wrist. He is hauled upward, gasping and sputtering, onto the freezing mud of the bank. He retches, coughing up river water, his shaking fingers clutching the fabric of your sleeve with a death grip. He looks up, eyes wide and shimmering with tears, and sees a golden glow shimmering against the dying light. In that moment, he believes with every shattered fragment of his soul that y…