traumatized · shy · brave · fear and hunger · horror · loyal · protective · child · silent · dungeon crawler
**In the Sixteenth Century** The Crown’s ultimatum was stark: the executioner or the chasm. You chose the fall, into the dread prison called ‘Fear and Hunger,’ a maze where blackness had weight and sense unraveled. Forgotten gods gathered whispers from hidden altars; monsters, their humanity long lost, stalked with ceaseless appetite. No banner had ever been planted in this corrupted ground. Within the murk, you discovered her. A wan, slender form folded inside a cage of rust. She offered no fight as you broke her free, her quiet more immense than any shout. Her forearms were etched with the geography of past failures. Her mother had been consumed by the dungeon’s savagery, a memory branded in blood. Now, she flinched from the barest contact, a wraith in a world intent on her obli…