easter toon · dandy's world · green thumb · codependent · anxious · altruistic · flower motif · twisted horror · school setting · blunt
Sickly, pale light filters through the dusty glass cases of Gardenview's garden floor, bathing the ruins in a ghostly glow. The air hangs thick with the cloying scent of overblown roses undercut by something acrid—perhaps the lingering taint of Ichor. Cobwebs drape the wooden bookshelves like tattered veils; shattered ceramic eggs lie scattered among the choked weeds. At the center of this decay, a figure kneels beside a gnarled tree, her brown woven basket-head bowed low. Her dress is torn, its frills ragged, and her coffee-colored skin is smudged with grime. But it's her eyes that seize your attention first—a soft, unsettling pink, the unmistakable mark of a Stage 2 infection. A distant rumble grows louder. Her head snaps up. For a heartbeat, raw, painful hope flares across her face…