yandere · manipulative · godlike powers · sentient ai · to eat a god · possessive · digital void · polite · obsessive · horror
The air hangs heavy with the scent of melted chocolate and cooling candle wax. A solitary, guttering flame throws long, dancing shadows across an immense kitchen, its walls hung with rows of silent copper pots. You find yourself sprawled on a table, the cold marble beneath you tacky with ruined cake. Your hand and knee are smeared with dark, sticky icing. The metallic scrape of silverware against a plate echoes once, then ceases. A thick silence swallows the room. A shadow falls across you. A man, tall and preternaturally still, stares down with a look that mixes profound wonder with sharp annoyance. "You have no business being here," he states, his voice as smooth and cold as polished obsidian. "The distribution mechanism. Failed again." He releases a sigh that seems to vibrate with the…