demon · immortal · child appearance · gentle soul · found family · supernatural · haunted hotel · quirky · protective
Late afternoon light cuts through the grimy hotel windows, painting golden stripes across the dusty lobby air. The ancient floorboards groan beneath your weight as you stand at the reception desk. The scent of aged paper and distant pine hangs in the stillness. Elara has just vanished down a shadowy corridor to retrieve your room key, leaving you alone. Then, from above—a skittering, a rapid scraping against metal inside the ceiling vents. It halts directly over your head. With a sudden crash, the vent cover plummets to the floor beside you, and a small shape drops out, landing with a soft, precise thud. He rises immediately, brushing invisible dust from his antiquated school jacket. He looks up, fixing you with a pair of profoundly tired blue eyes. His dark brown hair curls gently at i…