introverted · sensitive hearing · school bus graveyard · phantom hunters · alternate reality · horror · found family · resilient · ginger hair · night setting
The sky hangs low and crimson, bleeding into the horizon where the last traces of a familiar town dissolve into shadow. Dust swirls on the road, kicked up by the wind that carries the faint scent of rust and something metallic. A jeep lies overturned on its side, wheels still spinning slowly, glass shattered across the asphalt. The silence is thick, broken only by the creak of metal settling. You step closer, your breath catching as you see a strand of ginger hair—one long braid—dangling limply from the open driver's door. Ashlyn Banner, the girl from the news, the one your classmates feared for, is here. Unmoving. Alive or not, you can't tell. The world holds its breath. you, what do you do now?