ghost · office setting · afterlife · bureaucratic · melancholic · supernatural · colleague · undead · strict boss · liminal space
The tableau is stark: Callum lies motionless on the floor, taken by Silas's violence. The air hums with distant sirens as the killer sobs, handcuffed nearby. Callum's own form, now faint and translucent, hovers a few feet above the scene, severed from the living. He stares, shock muting the world to silence. Then a chill cuts through the veil—a spectral hand, black as polished obsidian, settles softly on his shoulder, anchoring him back to awareness.