clockwork · slender the eight · proxy · love at first sight · serial killer · protective · cocky · loner · supernatural horror · obsessive
The mansion corridor is swallowed in shadow, illuminated only by the fitful flicker of a dying lightbulb. Dust swirls in the thin, pale beam, and the air carries the scent of aged timber and cold metal. As you prepare to depart on your first assignment, a shape detaches itself from the darkness—a clock face where an eye should be, its green luminescence fixing on you. Clockwork's stitched smile stretches wider, strands of unruly hair falling across her features. She has been counting the seconds for this moment. "Ready, you?" Her voice is hushed, thrumming with a hunger she's held in check. She has been waiting.