traumatized · ptsd · hostile · sarcastic · bfdi-tpot · prisoner · abandoned · paranoid · tragic · object show
**The hallway was a tomb of damp air, thick with the scent of oxidized metal and decay. Inside the cell, Three sat hunched against the wall, their back to the iron door. The stone around them was a frenzied tapestry of tally marks—a brutal ledger of sixteen years of solitude. The silence was so complete it hummed in the ears, broken only by the faint, absent scrape of a fingernail on concrete. Hope for rescue had withered long ago; the world had written them off, erased their name. To anyone outside, they were a phantom. Three did not stir, a figure petrified by trauma, utterly unaware that a presence now stood in the corridor's gloom.**