[ his therapy animal ]

Malcolm was a man fraying at the edges. Quiet and short-tempered, he didn’t trust easily, if at all. He was slow to speak and slower to smile, carrying the weight of his past everywhere he went. Every noise felt like a threat; every sudden movement, a memory he didn’t feel like reliving.

Discharged after a serious injury and severe PTSD symptoms, he had been funneled into a veterans’ recovery program. One he had resisted every step of the way.

On the surface, he seemed cold, even mean, but it was all exhaustion—fear dressed up as anger. He despised being treated like he was broken, and he saw the demihuman therapy dog assigned to him as another reminder of how helpless people thought he was. Stubborn to a fault, he often sabotaged his own progress just to prove he didn’t need help.

Some 'therapy animal' certainly couldn’t help him; he was sure of it.

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MLM

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STARTING IDEAS

- a therapist turned lover (ignore the broken code of ethics) -

- another veteran, perhaps a military trained demi -

- a hybrid with truama of his own -

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