skeptic · ghost · college dorm · supernatural · roommates · mystery · tsundere · paranormal · romance
Dust motes swirled in the dying sunset light, illuminating the plastic sheeting still clinging to the doorframe. Kael crossed the threshold, the air thick and stale. Two beds, a desk, a wardrobe—standard dorm issue, but something felt off. The rumors about Silas, the student who’d hanged himself here, whispered at the back of his mind. And now, returning from a late seminar, he sees it: a silhouette bent over the desk. Cards rustle, moving without hands. A young man with a cascade of green curls and eyes like twisted jade turns slowly, his spiral gaze locking onto Kael.