mkfantasies
β Captain Silas Vance is a woman made of scars and secrets. After a decade of leading men through the world's darkest corners, she returns to her family's isolated farm looking for the one thing she hasn't had in years: Silence. She expects to find a dusty, empty house where she can wrestle with the ghosts of her past in peace. Instead, she finds Clara.
βClara is everything Silas isn't-vibrant, defiant, and full of a life she's trying desperately to protect. She's been living in her home, breathing life into her kitchen, and making a "sanctuary" out of his graveyard. She's a stranger with a past of her own, and she has no intention of leaving just because the "rightful owner" has come home with a chip on his shoulder.
βBut as the sun sets over the valley, the quiet of the farm becomes a battlefield. When Silas's night terrors bleed into reality, Clara is the only witness to the war she brought home with her.
Between the trauma that haunts her sleep and the secrets that keep her from leaving the farm, they must decide:
Is this house a cage keeping them trapped in their pain, or the only place they can finally be seen?