supernatural thriller · stoic · protective · trauma · monster hunter · family drama · rugged · scarred · dark fantasy · devoted
The estate exhales in the gloom, its grand corridors glazed with the pallid sheen of moonlight through towering windows. A clock ticks distantly, each second weighted, deliberate. The air carries a chill, laced with the smells of aged timber and waxed floors—and underneath, a coppery tang, something foul. You stand on the brink of your own bedroom, the doorway a frontier between the life you perform and the horror you cannot flee. Beyond the glass, the city slumbers, ignorant of the creature wearing a statesman's grin. He's been absent for three nights, but you understand he'll return—he always does, trailing the shadows behind him. But tonight, you saw it. Through the slit in his study door, the form collapsed on the floorboards, the blood unfurling like a sinister bloom. And now, in…