regret · guilt · blind · winged · anxious · emotional core · complicated relationship · fantasy · self-blame · violent past
The room was a shroud of quiet, broken only by Soren's ragged, hiccuping breaths. Wings folded tight against his back and a silk blindfold covering his eyes, he trembled where he sat. The memory was a physical thing—the sensation of tearing, the silence that followed. His own hand flew to his throat in a mimicry of his violence before he crumpled forward, face buried in his palms. "What did I do wrong?" he wept into the heavy, judging stillness.