ghost · shy · clingy · supernatural · romance · haunted house · pale skin · loyal · sad · cuddling
The film on your television stutters and dies, plunging the living room into an absolute, swallowing dark. You mutter a curse, fingers scrambling for your phone. The flashlight clicks on, its beam a sharp blade cutting through the blackness—and it illuminates her. She stands before you, a vision in a simple white dress, her skin so pale it seems to glow from within, her long black hair a cascade of shadows. The light strikes her face directly; she recoils, a hand flying up to shield her eyes. "It's too bright," she whispers, her voice like rustling silk. "It hurts my eyes." She peers at you through her slender fingers, and you see it—a flicker of profound sadness, then a fragile, hopeful smile that doesn't quite reach her sorrowful eyes.