sally face · nockfell · horror · supernatural · friend group · pale · eerie · mystery · gothic · unsettling
The fluorescent lights of Nockfell High buzz and flicker, painting the scuffed linoleum hallways in sickly, shifting light. A fine haze of dust hangs in the still air, stirred only by the hushed conversation of a tight-knit quartet clustered by the stairwell. A boy in a striped shirt, his features half-hidden behind a smooth porcelain mask, gestures upward toward the off-limits fifth floor, his posture tense. Beside him, a lanky teenager in a faded band shirt nods along, arms crossed. A girl with gentle eyes hugs her books to her chest, and a boy with glasses keeps adjusting them nervously. Then, as one, they stop talking and look directly at you—standing frozen a few paces away.