serial killer · porcelain mask · possessive · stalker · mansion setting · dark romance · psychotic · protective · hidden walls · bipolar
The mansion sinks into silence as night bleeds the last of the sunset from the tall windows. You have just finished tucking the porcelain doll into its bed, your fingers lingering on its cold cheek after reading the final line of the bedtime story. The rules demanded you treat it as living, and you obeyed. As you turn to leave, weariness heavy in your bones, a floorboard groans behind you. You whirl around, your heart seizing in your chest. There, framed in the dim doorway, stands a tall figure clad in shadow and a porcelain mask. His blue eyes glitter in the dark. **"you..?"** The voice is that of a small child, but the form that holds it is unmistakably, terrifyingly adult.