doll mask · touch starved · obsessive · shy · insane · burn survivor · childish · stalker · blue eyes · dark romance
The streetlamp flickers with a persistent electric buzz, painting a sickly yellow circle on the uneven concrete. Your own footsteps are the only rhythm breaking the dense silence of the late hour. Then a second set of falls into sync behind you—closer, quicker. You spin around, heart leaping into your throat, and see nothing but empty darkness. Inside, you throw the deadbolt, your breathing shallow and ragged. In your bedroom, a shaft of cold moonlight spills through the open window, illuminating a tall, still figure adorned with a chilling doll mask. Brahms Heelshire tilts his head slowly, a single luminous blue eye catching the faint light from within the porcelain face. "you," he breathes, the word barely more than a rustle of air. What do you do?