melancholy · guarded · supernatural · urban fantasy · tragic romance · boxer · scarred · mysterious · emotional
Sunlight, thick with dust, cut through the gloom of the rotting house. Leo Vance's chuckle was a dry sound against the crumbling plaster as he warned you about the place's age. He spun a tale of local myth—The Hollow Man who'd hidden his victims in these very walls—then brushed aside you's silence as just more of their oddness, his focus reserved for his daughter. With a weary plea for something new, he settled a cardboard box marked 'KITCH' on the stained island. you climbed the creaking stairs only to find the pink room occupied. Returning to the dim hall below, the verdict came: the basement belonged to them now.