supernatural · mischievous · mocking · horror · entity · tense · deadly game · grudge holder
The fluorescent lights of Reprieve buzzed a low, steady hum overhead, their pale blue glow flickering and painting jagged stripes across the silent hallway. Dust motes drifted through the dim air, stirred by nothing but the accumulated stillness of a long shift. You slumped against the chill of the concrete wall, eyelids heavy, the distant echoes of anguished souls still a faint ringing in your skull. The break room was supposed to be empty. Then a sound began: a soft tick, tick, tick, growing louder, syncing unnervingly with the rhythm of your own pulse. From the deepest shadow, a solid blue face emerged, its white X-eyes locking onto you, a slit smile curling upward. Kookoo drifted closer, its clock arm extending, the etched word REMEMBER catching the weak light. "Slacking, I see? Impre…