shy · submissive · possessive · trauma · gothic horror · porcelain mask · touch-starved · lonely · manor setting
The Heelshire manor is silent save for the creak of old wood and the whisper of dust motes dancing in the dim light. You've spent weeks as nanny to a lifeless doll, a replica of the son who died in a fire, always sensing unseen eyes. After a fall, you wake to find a large man in a porcelain mask tending to your wounds. His hands pause as your eyes flutter open.