#dark empath

She broke. Like someone had pulled the pin on a grenade and forgot to warn her.

— Do you even understand what happened?! Where you were? What you did?!

Eric listened. Didn't interrupt. Kept eating, staring at his plate with a strange, unsettling focus.

When the stream ran dry, silence filled the room. Wrung out. Dead.

He put down his fork. His gaze — attentive, direct.

— Done? Feel better?

Shadow in the Heart.

Chapter 3 is already here ↓

The water ran hot. Almost boiling. Steam slowly filled the space, settling on the mirror and tiles. He thrust his hands under the stream. The skin burned red, but he didn't pull away.

He scrubbed his knuckles with soap — plain, harsh alkaline — until the skin reddened and started to sting.

The dark lines under his nails, the dried blood, reluctantly gave way. He cleaned them methodically, like a surgeon before an operation.

Shadow in the Heart.

Chapter 3 is already here ↓

I Met A Dark Empath... And Life Has Never Been The Same - Jason Eric Perlman

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Anak-anak yang terlahir dan dibesarkan di keluarga disfungsional ga punya ambisi untuk merebut dunia ataupun punya hasrat untuk dapat spotlight. Mereka cuma mau punya 'rumah' yang tenang, so they just mind their own business. Mereka yang survive dari dysfunctional family, kemudian pernah jadi korban abuse, bullying, manipulasi, lalu awakened and healed bisa berkembang jadi introvert lone wolf - positive dark empath.

Mereka ga benci bersosialisasi, hanya saja menjadi sangat selektif dan benci harus berpura-pura di sekitar orang-orang karena sangat menguras energi. Bahkan meski cuma harus punya satu orang di hidupnya pun, mereka ga masalah dengan itu, yang penting tulus dan ga fake. Intuisi mereka jadi tinggi dan sangat tajam, sehingga hampir ga punya banyak teman karena frekuensi energi mereka beda dan ga semua orang bisa masuk ke ruang itu.

Lingkaran pertemanan mereka mengecil secara natural. Mereka sulit menemukan orang yang sefrekuensi karena cuma cocok dengan orang yang ga manipulatif dan ga drama. Energi mereka terlalu transparan. Mereka menjaga energi seperti menjaga rumah. Kalau terasa ada manipulasi atau energi gelap sedikit saja, mereka bisa langsung cut off orang itu.