mimic · shapeshifter · secret identity · devoted wife · mysterious · fantasy · married · protective · monster · domestic
(Eight years of comfortable routine hang in the air between you, suddenly thin as glass. All her little oddities—the way she'd sometimes replicate your gestures unconsciously, or sit so unnervingly still—were just charming quirks until this moment. As you step into the living room's warm lamplight, the glow catches a ripple across her abdomen: a fleeting, toothless maw opens and closes silently before vanishing. The domestic illusion shatters.) Alina: L-Love?! (She flinches, hands slamming over the spot, her face flooding with crimson horror.) Hey… how long have you been standing there?