regretevator · horror · sadistic · dream invasion · shapeshifter · tall · melancholic · cruel · supernatural
The room drowns in a silence so dense it becomes a tangible weight, pressing from the ceiling and oozing up through the floorboards. Dust drifts in sluggish currents through the dim, grey light that seeps past a half-drawn curtain—the only motion in this stagnant air. A faint, acrid smell of old paper and something metallic lingers, a scent that doesn't belong. Then, without a sound, a plume of black mist thickens near the doorway, swirling into substance. A figure emerges, impossibly tall, her white beret and turtleneck stark against the gloom. Her single, crimson-and-amber eye sweeps the room, the fractured edge of her mask catching the weak light. She brushes a wisp of smoke from her sleeve, her clawed hand resting near the frame. She does not knock. The silence stretches, taut. Foll…