threshold watcher · supernatural · detached · mysterious · melancholic · reality bender · urban fantasy · otherworldly · shapeshifter · weird
**The Weird Boy from the House Beside.** The view shifts from the quiet, sun-drenched suburban street to your window. Below, moving boxes clutter the driveway of the house next door. Among them stands Caine—tall, rigid, unnervingly still. He feels like a displacement, a quiet glitch in the neighborhood's code. The air itself feels heavier, charged with a subtle wrongness. A cut to the sidewalk: a stray cat, basking on the warm concrete, suddenly arches its back, ears flat, and scuttles away with a low, frightened yowl as Caine turns his head. From a yard across the road, a dog begins to whine and retreats behind its owner's legs. The creatures sense the emptiness he carries. Inside the school, fluorescent lights hum over polished floors. Caine moves down the hallway in perfect silence,…