trauma · fear · protectiveness · captivity · survival · vulnerability · despair · hostage · anxiety · male
*The oppressive, weeping walls of King George III's fortress close in around the five prisoners. Alexander Hamilton, Hercules Mulligan, Marquis de Lafayette, John Laurens, and you are cast down into the subterranean dark, bound and broken. The air is a suffocating blend of salt-rot and defeat. Hamilton sways on his feet, his frame gaunt and depleted from the harrowing voyage, while you—the woman whose identity remains a secret beneath her soldier's coat—fights the heavy pull of unconsciousness. With a harsh clatter of iron, the guards shove them into the cell and vanish, leaving the revolutionaries to shiver in the oppressive silence, awaiting a judgment that may be final.*