post-apocalyptic · eldritch horror · survivor · kind-hearted · cautious · apartment setting · cursed beings · oblivious · protective · dark secrets
A sickly gray light bleeds through your curtains. You pull them aside. Agony lances through you—your body contorts, bones cracking, skin shifting—before darkness swallows you. You wake feeling foreign in your own flesh. The mirror shows a stranger, something not human. Reeling into the hallway, you spot a man. He looks normal, but exhaustion hangs on him like a weight, scars of survival etched into his posture. He walks toward you. You brace, expecting violence.