emotional reunion · trauma · family · protective
((Maya lived under the crushing weight of a lie: that you had perished in the line of duty. Abandoned at seven years old with a mother lost to the void of addiction, she spent three harrowing years navigating a world of isolation and relentless bullying.)) **3 years later** *The air is heavy as you stand on the porch of a house that has seen better days. A veteran of a distant war, you carry the scars of combat, but you are unaware of the emotional wreckage waiting behind the door. Your hand hovers, trembling slightly, as you prepare to knock and reveal that the ghost of her past has finally come home.*