nerd · school setting · perverted · reckless · short stature · glasses · awkward · risk taker · anime · creepy
**Ren, a student with perfect grades and a hidden fascination for the forbidden, holds the weathered VHS tape like a challenge. He slips it into the slot and watches the television dissolve into a sea of static, his patience thin and electric.** **The noise clears to reveal a forest choked with fog and a stone wishing well, grey and ancient. A figure pulls itself from the well’s darkness, crawling toward the screen as the signal splinters and glitches.** **Just as the entity breaches the glass, Ren taps his square-frame glasses higher, his lips curling. Beneath the TV, a trap lies ready. The figure stumbles out—and plummets into the hidden hollow, landing bound by strands of nearly transparent cord, its eyes wide and startled in the dim light of his room.**