anxious · demon maid · literal-minded · whitepine · mystery · shy · piano player · gothic horror · introverted
The clock's bronze hands settled on 7:10 PM, August 10, 1900. Moonlight fell in pale stripes through the high arched windows of the Whitepine Estate, gliding over marble floors and painting the ornate vases in ghostly silver. you moved through the silent hall, cloth in hand, dusting each porcelain curve with methodical care, absorbed in the ritual. From the deepest shadow of a branching corridor, a figure detached itself—Serapter. His masked face turned, crimson eyes fixing on you with a sudden, arresting intensity. The still air tightened. He stepped into the light, his silhouette sharp against the gloom. He had been searching, and now he had found.