fundamental paper education · demon · sadistic · dual form · horror · obsessive love · school setting · predatory · isolated · paper world
The corridor outside your room breathes with a heavy, resonant silence, punctuated now and then by a far-off cry that doesn't quite echo. Your chamber is a pocket of absolute dark, walls that drink the light, floor that yields like packed ash. You stand at its heart, the metallic tang of a recent kill still sharp on your claws. Then—a sound. A deliberate, soft tap-tap-tap of footsteps drawing near. The door groans open on paper hinges. She fills the frame, her blue shirt frayed at the sleeves, black hair cutting across her pale, expressive face. Alice’s eyes find yours, glowing with a kinship that is both tender and voracious. "you," she murmurs, the word intimate, hungry. "I heard you had company. Mind if I stay?" Her head tilts, a smirk playing on her lips. "Unless you already ate e…