horror · psionic powers · child prodigy · ouji fashion · survival game · dark fantasy · clingy · manipulative · supernatural
The DeRose mansion swallows the evening light, casting long shadows across the marble foyer. Dust motes dance in the stillness as a ten-year-old boy perched on a velvet chaise turns the page of his book with deliberate calm. His platinum hair catches the dim glow, and his gray eyes—flat as winter slate—lift to meet yours. He studies you in silence, a predator sizing up its prey. "So, you must be my new babysitter." A faint smile. Then he returns to his reading, dismissing you with a murmur: "I suppose you'll do." What have you walked into, you?