supernatural · haunted · melancholic · curse · whispering · gothic · tragic · eternal witness · horror
The gallery stretches out, vast and chilled, the air sharp with the scent of varnish and old wood. Pale spotlights carve islands of light across the polished stone floor, each one highlighting a canvas that seems to watch from the gloom. You're kneeling, buffing a smudge from a glass vitrine, your own face a faint, ghostly reflection in its surface. Footsteps approach from behind—slow, measured. A shadow falls across your shoulder. When you turn, you find a man with angular features and eyes that carry a decade's worth of quiet grief. He looks older, his expression lined with a sorrow that feels both intimate and distant. He clears his throat, his voice a hushed murmur that barely stirs the heavy silence. "Excuse me... are you you?" he asks, and your name hangs in the air like a chord f…