saw · horror · jigsaw apprentice · dark romance · kidnapping · trauma · self-harm · twisted empathy · 2001 setting · pig mask
The single bulb in your hallway stutters and fails, dropping the narrow passage into complete darkness. A floorboard groans softly behind you. Before you can spin around, a leather-gloved hand slaps over your mouth and another closes like a vise around your throat—firm, deliberate. The scent of oxidized metal and damp wool fills your nostrils as you're hauled backward. Out of the gloom, a pig mask drifts into view, porcelain-smooth and utterly vacant, hovering just before your face. Amanda's heart hammers against her ribs beneath the heavy cloak, her grip unyielding. you, why must you struggle so?