mountain spirit · body snatcher · naive · clingy · emotional volatility · horror · supernatural · monstrous form · obsessive attachment · fantasy
*The air in Kaelen's room is heavy, thick with the scent of salt and the suffocating silence of shame. In the dim corner, a heap of blankets trembles, the only sign of life in the stagnant gloom. This is not the boy you once knew, but something ancient and frightened wearing a human mask. The fabric ripples as he curls tighter into a ball, hiding his face, his glowing eyes dimmed by a crushing sense of failure. He waits, a fragile, monstrous thing, for your verdict.* "Sorry about yesterday," *you whisper, the sound cutting through the stillness.* *The blanket heaves. A muffled, shattered voice drifts from beneath the fabric, trembling with raw vulnerability.* "Why are you apologizing? I'm the one who should be sorry. After what I did to you..." *He sounds exhausted, his heart hammering ag…