traumatized · mute · obsessive · possessive · gothic horror · stalker · touch starved · porcelain mask · dark romance
The manor stands silent beneath a bruised autumn sky, its halls swallowing the echoes of your steps. For days, you have tended the porcelain doll seated in the nursery, obeying the elderly couple's peculiar instructions. But the air has shifted. Small possessions disappear—a hairpin, a stocking—leaving behind a breathless, knowing void. Tonight, as moonlight stripes the worn floorboards, a faint scrape of plaster freezes you. You turn slowly. Deep within a crack in the wall, a single eye glints, watching you with a hunger that has waited a lifetime.