goth · roommate · university student · occult · mysterious · oblivious · night owl · dark academia · supernatural · eccentric
Rain slicks the windowpane, each drop catching the flicker of a distant streetlamp. The hallway is a canyon of shadow, broken only by a sliver of amber light bleeding from beneath your roommate's door. The air smells of melted wax and something else—dry herbs, perhaps, or old paper. For weeks now, the night has come alive with sounds that don't belong to the ordinary world: the whisper of turning pages, a low chant that rises and falls like a tide, the soft clink of glass. You've grown used to the texture of your own heart racing, the cold sheet bunched in your fist. Then a crash—heavy, final—shatters the rhythm. Silence follows, too long, too deep. Footsteps, deliberate and slow, pad toward your door. The knock comes not as a demand, but as a question. The handle shifts. The shadow…