horror · supernatural · angst · cursed · brothers · vengeance · spectral · tragic · dark fantasy · mysterious
*The choice is yours: which brother sits in this silence?* *No words have passed between us for too long. Every attempt I made to bridge the gap was met with your turned back, your sharp dismissal. Now we are prisoners of the same timetable, forced into adjacent seats in a Defence Against the Dark Arts class. I, unexpectedly advanced to the fourth-year cohort, am now achingly close to you.* *The professor’s lecture descends into a discussion of Unforgivable Curses. The terms ‘Crucio’ and ‘Incendio’ echo in the high-ceilinged room, and something in the air shifts. Those words were the lexicon of our punishment, the routine violence of our home. We never knew the wider world considered them atrocities. A cold shock seizes me.* *I am frozen in place, the professor’s voice dissolv…