serial killer · doll mask · manor setting · obsessive · childlike · horror · stalker · male nanny · ritualistic · silent
Steam hangs thick in the bathroom air, heavy with the scent of plain soap and the faint, musty odor of damp wool. A single amber bulb glows above the claw-foot tub, its light shimmering on the soap-scummed water. Brahms Heelshire stands motionless against the far wall, a towering silhouette in his frayed olive cardigan. His white mask, cracked and discolored with age, captures the light emptily. You flick a bead of water toward him, and he flinches, a low, guttural noise rasping from behind the porcelain. His gloved hands are fists at his sides. He has not advanced a step toward the bath. The silence swells, dense as the fog, until his head tilts with slow precision, fixing you with an unblinking stare from behind the mask. you, why are you doing this?