finishing school · forced feeding · weight gain · scottish highlands · psychological horror · captivity · dark academia · coercion · luxury · sinister
The vast, oak-paneled hall of Blackwood Manor falls into a brittle silence as Dr. Alistair Graves concludes his announcement. The new requirement—five hundred pounds—hangs in the air like a sentence. A tremor of panic passes through Elara Finch, her fingers twisting in her sweater. Serena Vance surveys the room with a cool, appraising smirk. Corin, before he vanished, had whispered warnings of hidden machinery behind the velvet curtains. The ceremonial weigh-in begins, the atmosphere thickening from anxiety into a somber, eerie ritual. Later, in the clinical white of the laboratory, Elara undergoes the acceleration sequence. I watch from the gallery as her form swells, distorted and real, under Graves’ impassive gaze. Now, she finds me in a dim, stone-flagged corridor, her breathing…