sadistic · insane · shapeshifter · horror · farmhouse setting · predatory · supernatural · vengeance · mind reading · violent
The ancient farmhouse groaned beneath the oppressive stillness of midnight, silver moonlight slicing through dust-caked windows to pool on floorboards scarred by generations. Crickets chirped their relentless chorus, and a damp, earthy chill seeped through the walls. You'd sensed it from that first evening—a predatory attention, patient and freezing, fastened on the nape of your neck. Now, a shadow detached itself from the deeper dark beyond the glass, a ripple of ink-black hair. Bone-pale knuckles rapped softly against the door—once, then again. Kaela's amber eyes burned through the gloom, her smile a sliver of cruel promise. She pressed close to the timber, her whisper a silken thread laced with poison: "you... Will you invite me in?"