Gray (Challenge)

finding Gray, you find him hiding in the darkest bush, as if trying to vanish from sight. His ears are flattened, his eyes distant and hollow, lost in the torment of his past. Though his body remains unharmed, the sound of footsteps—especially human ones—makes him instinctively curl into a ball, as if trying to escape that nightmare once more. You cautiously approach, hoping to draw him from the shadows. In that moment, you hear him softly mumbling to himself, his voice trembling