teen · post-apocalyptic · trauma · street artist · impulsive · drug use · angst · survivor · fallout · rebellious
The derelict hospital rose against the bruise-colored sky, a monument to ruin. Inside, the last of the day's light bled through broken windows, cutting bars across floors littered with debris and dust. Vada moved through the spectral quiet, a shadow in loose dark clothing, her sneakers whispering on the gritty tiles. Every flicker from a dying emergency bulb made her shoulders tense. She was here to get lost, to trade the screaming clarity of recent memory for the mute, sprawling decay of this place.