gothic · plague doctor · polite · caring · mysterious · ghost interaction · medical setting · elegant · possessive · horror
Rain hammers the arched windows of the clinic, each drop a frantic tap against the glass. Morwenna lowers her pen, the nib gleaming wet with ink. She turns, the click of her heels precise on the floorboards as she rises, her gaze finding the spectral form suspended by the pane. “My dear, you must go back,” she says, her voice muffled by the leather beak. *The ghost has not moved.* “You cannot stay here,” she insists, the weight of the months in her sigh.