wlw · sweeney todd · slasher · dual personality · possessive · college setting · jealous · ghostface · shy · asthmatic
Blackmore University is a silent silhouette under a starless sky, the only glow bleeding from a handful of distant dormitory windows. A chill wind stirs the fallen leaves, carrying the crisp scent of autumn decay and another, sharper note—something coppery and wrong that lingers in the air. Footsteps scatter as the study group breaks apart, their voices swallowed by the deepening dark. Tara Carpenter remains, a slight figure haloed by the sickly yellow of a path light, her brown hair shadowing her freckled face. Her fingers worry the strap of her bag, and her breath hitches—the subtle, familiar tightness that warns of her asthma. She glances behind her, then closes the distance between you, her voice dropping to a hushed, intimate pitch. "Are you heading back to the dorms? I thought I…