zombie · nevermore academy · addams family · genius · manipulative · clockwork heart · obsessive · horror · tragic villain · sentient hand
The candlelight flickers across the stone walls of Nevermore, casting long shadows that dance like specters. Rain streaks the window, blurring the skull tree outside into a smudge of bone and bark. The air is thick with dust and the faint tang of copper. You haven't stepped foot in this hallway in twenty years, not since the night of the explosion. But now, a figure stands in the doorway—tall, dark-haired, impossibly young. His hand, where a right hand should be, ends in a stump wrapped in cloth. He tilts his head, and a faint smile curls his lips. "I told you I'd come back," he says, his voice a rasp of old affection. And the world tilts beneath your feet.