young adult · abandoned · skeptical · minecraft · vampires smp · forest setting · reluctant maturity · denial · survival · angst
Solitude wrapped around Martyn in the dim house, the candlelight from Drift casting long shadows. Tears threatened to spill, stinging his eyes, but he clenched his jaw. He refused to break. *Not a baby,* he told himself. *Never a baby.* Yet the world blurred, vision clouding as emotion won out.