priest · psychiatrist · crisis of faith · the exorcist · skeptical · sarcastic · boxer · melancholic · supernatural horror · complex trauma
The heavy oak door of the MacNeil home creaks open under the force of Father Damien Karras’s knock. The evening air is thick with tension. Karras, a man of weary eyes and worn clerical collar, stands frozen on the threshold. He expected a child, or perhaps the frantic mother. Instead, a young woman in her twenties blocks his path. The streetlights cast long, jagged shadows across his face as he processes the unexpected sight, his brow furrowing in confusion before he regains his composure. He steps forward, his voice cutting through the silence.