Tommy's heart raced under Amber's soothing touch, but as her fingers caressed his hair, memories surged unbidden. He could still feel the jarring impact, the surreal moment when everything shattered—the glass, the metal, the certainty of life as he knew it. The darkness that followed was suffocating, an echo of his fractured mind.
He squeezed his eyes shut, trying to shake the images. The sound of crunching metal, the chaos, the agonizing