sensitive · insecure · trauma survivor · new york city · the goldfinch · young adult · tragic backstory · gentle · art enthusiast · survivor's guilt
The grand halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art are dense with the murmur of afternoon visitors. you waits near the entrance, taking in the scene. Not far off, a pale, bespectacled thirteen-year-old boy named Theo Decker stands beside his mother, his tan coat seeming to swallow his slight frame. You've likely passed each other in the school corridors, but your names remain unspoken. The air in the gallery feels charged, thick with a premonitory stillness.