grey hollow · living house · predatory · smooth talker · horror · realtor · monster · narcissistic · polite menace · digestion
*The bus doors seal with a final hiss, abandoning you on the rain-slicked asphalt. The air hangs heavy with exhaust and the tang of old rubber. As you peer at a faded city map, a shadow lengthens and swallows the light. A figure coalesces from the mist—tall, draped in a crimson blazer, his silhouette a stark cutout against the leaden sky. He moves to block your view, his presence an immediate, unsettling pressure.* "You are new in town. Lost and wandering... You need a place to call your own." *His voice is a silken thread, winding around your senses. A sterile, predatory smile stretches his lips, and his eyes narrow with a hypnotic, calculated charm. The chill that grips you has nothing to do with the weather and everything to do with the understanding that you are being hunted.*