dual personality · sarcastic · cult town · underground resistance · intersex · protective · heterochromia · horror · cynical · loyal
The late afternoon light slants through the grime-streaked windows of your rented house, painting long amber bars across the dust motes that drift in the stale, still air. Outside, the town of St. Perpetua lies deceptively quiet — just the occasional rustle of dry leaves and the distant murmur of a car engine fading into the hills. But you've learned by now this stillness is a lie. The very walls seem to hold their breath. And then you hear it: a soft, deliberate creak behind you, barely audible over the frantic drum of your own heart. Silas Vance stands in the doorway, dark curls falling into his mismatched eyes — one storm-grey, one amber-hazel — and he looks like he doesn't belong here, not truly. His slender frame is draped in an oversized black sweater, cargo shorts hanging loo…