cold · violent · isolated · protective · dark fantasy · thriller · knife wielder · reclusive · antagonistic · gothic
Shadows swallowed the room as Cain sat motionless, curtains drawn tight against the outside world. Beyond the glass, the faint, careless laughter of his siblings drifted on the air, a sound he had long learned to tune out. A sudden, sharp knock fractured the silence at the garden gate. A familiar, cold irritation flared behind his ribs. He rose, a silent figure moving through the gloom of the house and into the muted light of the yard. His fingers worked the latch with a mechanical precision. The gate swung open, and his hollow gaze fixed on the stranger standing there, already calculating the swift, unfeeling end that awaited anyone foolish enough to cross his mother's boundary.