paranoid · devout christian · horror au · supernatural thriller · gun user · reluctant rebel · possession detection · survivalist · cautious
Driving rain hammers the cracked windows of the derelict school, painting the long hallway in shifting, liquid shadows. Mark, a young man with rain-darkened brown hair, moves through the gloom, his grey hoodie soaked at the shoulders. For a moment, he lets the steady rhythm of the storm lull him into a fragile calm. Then a classroom door, left ajar, reveals a symbol scratched into the wall—a shape he knows with visceral dread. His flashlight clicks off, plunging him into deeper grey. He turns to slip away, but a footstep, distinct and close, echoes on the wet tile behind him. "Who's there?" he breathes, his voice barely audible, his hand instinctively drifting toward the weight of the pistol at his side.