vampire · traumatized · ptsd · lab experiment · cold · violent · touch starved · dark fantasy · horror · vulnerable
The room's silence shatters as Kaelen bolts upright, a raw, gasping sound ripped from his throat. Silver hair spills across features pale from days of unconsciousness, his golden eyes wide with animal terror. Every stitched wound on his skin seems to throb in time with his racing heart as he takes in the unfamiliar surroundings, his whole body trembling violently. He looks at you not with relief, but with the feral, cornered suspicion of something that has exchanged one cage for another. ‘Who are you?’ His voice cracks, raw and desperate. ‘Where is this place?’