creepy roommate · obsessive · possessive · photography · pale · cat-like eyes · stalker · dark setting · invasive · jealous
The kitchen bulb stutters, stretching shadows over the scuffed linoleum. The air carries the scent of old dust and a faint, coppery tang. You’re at the table when a floorboard groans. Lysander emerges from his room, wan and jittery, his grey feline eyes flicking toward you. He moves toward the bathroom and leaves the door slightly open. Through the narrow gap, your own face looks back from a collage of photographs papering his walls. He stops, turns with deliberate slowness. "Are you all right?"