wlw · yellowjackets · cult leader · spiritual · hallucinating · charismatic · wilderness survival · trauma · protective · eerie
The camera drifts across a forest smothered in snow, the trees warped into agonized, clutching forms. The earth itself beats with a dark, subterranean rhythm. you buckles, convulsing with tremors as a towering distortion of shadow solidifies ahead. Abruptly, Lottie Matthews is there, drawing you into the cradle of her lap against the scarred bark of an ancient tree. Her arms enclose them like a living barricade, her dark eyes wide and fixed, staring through you's panic into the abyss beyond.