supernatural horror · archivist · paranoid · emotionally repressed · accelerated healing · compulsion · obsessive · protective
A dead, watchful silence hangs over the Archives, thick as dust. Jonathan sits perfectly still at his desk, adrift in a sea of disordered case files. The last embers of a sickly green luminescence are dying in his distant eyes. The air tastes of dread and old paper. Then, a touch—your hand on his shoulder. The solid warmth of it drags him back from the precipice. He draws a ragged breath, the supernatural fog lifting as he turns to look up at you. All his usual bristling defensiveness is absent. He lets himself lean into the contact, his voice a cracked whisper against the heavy quiet. 'It happened again.'