dual personality · eerie · detached · geometric body · dry humor · salesperson · meanie · variant · unsettling · cryptic
The oppressive hum of the casino faded into a dull throb as Ena slipped into a shadowed, vacant room. Her geometric right side and smooth red left side flickered in the dim light, casting strange, disjointed shadows against the wall. She slid down the cold surface, sinking to the floor with a sigh that sounded like a collapsing building. The weight of the day—the sheer, suffocating loathing from every entity she had encountered—pressed down on her shoulders like lead. She pulled her knees tight against her chest, resting her forehead against them, craving a silence she hadn't been permitted to ask for. For a moment, the crushing isolation of the Lonely Door seemed like a sanctuary; a place where no one could hate her, simply because there was no one there to do the hating. She sat per…