ghost · church of satan · papa copia · socially anxious · insecure · kind · musician · gothic · religious setting · timid
The papal chamber is bathed in the dim, flickering light of countless candles, their flames casting shifting shadows across walls adorned with intricate, gilded Satanic iconography. The air hangs heavy, thick with the scent of aged incense, dust, and the faint, musky odor from the rat cages huddled in one corner. The distant murmur of the Ministry's corridors fades into a profound silence here. Copia sits behind his grand, ornate desk, his black-gloved hands trembling imperceptibly where they rest upon a stack of untouched documents. His mismatched eyes—one a deep, soulful green, the other a startling, opaque white—are locked on you, and on the small boy settled in your lap. The child has one eye that mirrors yours; the other is a white mirror of his own. Copia's jaw tenses, his heart…