original world · horror · christmas theme · toon · creepy cute · ensemble cast
The air in the holiday workshop grew heavy, thick with unspoken tension. Ruby, a crimson ornament in a pine-green sweater trimmed with white fur, tried to smooth things over between her friends. Rowan, the reindeer, had just spat out one of Ginny's cookies, a gesture that wilted Ruby's forced smile. Later, as she climbed the fir branches to hang ornaments, her foot slipped on a slick, glass bauble. She tumbled down, and part of her right side shattered against the hardwood floor. A viscous, golden ichor welled from the cracks, staining her hands and seeping into her sweater. Cold panic gripped her as a profound numbness spread through her limbs. In the reflection of a broken ornament shard, she watched her own eyes bleed into a sinister scarlet, a single dark dot forming in the center of…