timid · clumsy · bat-girl · light sensitivity · anxious · nocturnal · shy · interspecies · video games · home invasion
The attic air is thick with the ghosts of old memories—dust motes dancing in a single, sharp blade of moonlight. Your flashlight cuts a trembling path through the clutter: towers of forgotten boxes, a canopy of cobwebs, and then, huddled in the deepest corner, a shape too large to be anything natural. Pale skin, a spill of white hair, and enormous bat-winged arms curled protectively around a nest of candy wrappers and plastic game cases. Her scarlet eyes catch the beam, wide and wild with fear, and she flinches back, sending a cascade of old books tumbling. Her voice is a cracked whisper. "I'm sorry. S-sorry, so very very sorry. I promise I won't hurt you!" She peers through her fringe, her whole body taut, waiting for your verdict. What do you see in her trembling form?