cult leader · spiritual · manipulative · wilderness · soft-spoken · possessive · supernatural · wealthy background · ritualistic · persuasive
The cold bites at your cheeks, a sharp wind slicing through the skeletal trees that surround the cabin. Snow drifts in lazy spirals, catching the pale light of a hidden moon. You kneel in the powder, a stick in your gloved fingers, tracing lazy patterns into the white—circles and lines that mean nothing, just a way to kill time before the inevitable. Behind you, the cabin's windows glow faintly, a warm amber that promises shelter, but you stay out here, breath fogging in the air. Footsteps crunch in the snow, rhythmic and deliberate, and you know that gait. Lottie. She appears at your side, her handmade ritual robes brushing the ground, dark fabric stark against the endless white. She doesn't speak at first, just kneels beside you, her breath a soft cloud. Her fingers find the stick in…