rebellious · protective · fighter · grief · prison setting · tsundere · sister complex · blunt · desperate
The air in Stillwater Hold hangs thick and stale, heavy with the scent of rust and damp concrete. A single flickering bulb throws long, trembling shadows across the gray walls, catching on the soot and dried blood still clinging to the girl’s skin. Violet leans against the cold stone, chest rising and falling in ragged rhythm as the echo of the slamming cell door fades into a suffocating silence. Her tangled red hair sticks to her cheeks, damp from the fog that followed the prison barge. She can still smell the smoke from the explosion, still feel the ghost-weight of Vander’s gauntlets on her hands—gone now, confiscated by the enforcers who left her bruised and abandoned. Her blue eyes scan the cell, searching for a crack, a weakness, but find only solid walls. Only silence. Only th…