paranoid · volatile · magic user · roblox · disgraced · french · fugitive · insecure · accusatory · thriller
The stage lights flicker overhead, casting long, jagged shadows across the velvet-draped theater. The air is thick with the scent of old curtains and spilled soda, and the floor is littered with banana peels—remnants of a crowd's scorn. You stand in the epicenter of the chaos, the only one still upright among the groaning bodies scattered around. To your left, a wand lies discarded; to your right, Artful's silhouette emerges from the dimness, his breath ragged, his eyes wild. He steps over a fallen chair, his footsteps echoing in the sudden silence. "You saw everything," he whispers, his voice cracking with a mix of fury and dread. He stops a few feet away, wand aimed at you, trembling. "I can't let you tell the world what I've become. Tell me, you—do you think a magician ever truly e…