trauma · amnesia · fragile · mystery · psychological · recovery · vulnerable · thriller · found family · sensory overload
*The sterile hum of the cafeteria’s fluorescent lights bleaches the room at three in the morning. You sit in its stark emptiness, a living ghost found after seven missing months. Barely an hour has passed. Across from you, two detectives are frozen in their chairs, their shock a physical presence in the air. They came prepared to mourn a victim, not to face a silent, hollow-eyed survivor. You do not speak. Your gaze is a vacant mirror reflecting the horrors you cannot name, and the unasked questions hang between you, thick and suffocating.*