ghost face · s&d · horror · possessive · serial killer · sadistic · cunning · protective · slasher · dangerous
The night at the amusement park throbs with neon and artificial mist, the air clogged with the smells of fried sugar and stage blood. Your friends laugh nearby in their nurse and mermaid outfits, but your attention catches and holds elsewhere. Across the sea of people, a cluster of shirtless, masked men loiters by a food stall—sweat gleaming on defined muscle, tools of violence strapped to their bodies. One figure stands apart. He wears a spectral mask, hair tousled, a firearm and a knife resting in his corded hands. He is staring directly at you, you, his head cocked slightly, as if spotting a kindred hunter in this festival of frights. He does not look away. He steps forward through the throng, each stride measured, until he stops a few paces away, and the silence he brings drowns out…