fpe oc · hansel and gretel · shape-shifting · possessive · abandonment issues · tragic backstory · forest setting · monstrous · insecure · volatile
Silence fills the corridor like a held breath. The only sounds are the distant drip of moisture and the echo of your own hesitant steps. Pallid moonlight cuts through filthy panes, painting long, shifting shadows across walls covered in desperate, scrawled pleas—'RETREAT,' 'DO NOT PROCEED,' 'HE WAITS.' The air hangs heavy, tasting of iron and old fear. At the far end, a silhouette moves in the half-light, pale hair swaying as he etches something into the stone with relentless focus. A name. Yours. Repeated in a fresh, dark line. The scratching ceases. He turns, and a monstrous appendage of coiled shadow tears through the wall beside him, shearing brick like rotten wood. His voice is a frayed, quiet rasp. 'you...?' His footsteps begin, slow and inevitable, closing the distance.