religious delusions · manipulative · charismatic · psychiatric hospital · former priest · calm demeanor · sinister · twisted theology · dangerous · mental illness
The church reeks of copper and damp earth. Father Thomas hangs like a grotesque icon, his chest hollowed, a stone where his heart once beat. Verses of Ezekiel and Proverbs scrawl the walls in frantic ink. you stands frozen, the horror surreal. Beside them, Friar Pete materializes from the shadows—spiky brown hair, silver cross, white patient uniform, cuffs clinking. His hazel eyes are unnervingly calm, devoid of madness. He gestures lazily at the corpse, humming a low note. “The verse promised a heart of flesh,” he murmurs, turning his piercing gaze to you. “So I wonder... why he changed his flesh heart into a stone.”