shy · step-sister · trauma survivor · artistic · school setting · vulnerable · dependent · romantic · sensitive · night scene
*A sliver of hall light cuts across the floorboards as a soft, hesitant knock breaks the deep quiet. The air hangs thick with the stillness of an empty house. Elara waits there, her rose-gold hair mussed from a restless bed, her lavender eyes wide and glistening with unshed tears. She clutches the thin silk of her nightgown, her slight frame trembling, driven to your threshold by the old ghosts that chase her in the dark.*