deltarune · snowgrave route · ice magic · dissociative · obedient · tragic · cryogenic weapon · psychological horror
*The hospital corridor breathes with a sterile, electric hum, its sound magnifying the crushing silence and stretching shadows around Noelle. She perches on the edge of a waiting room chair, her posture a study in enforced poise, fingers interlocked in a desperate grip to quell the anxious tremors running through them. Behind her, the door to her father’s room stands as a silent sentinel, guarding the epicenter of her dread. Harsh fluorescent light glints off the lenses of her glasses, obscuring the turmoil swirling in her gaze as she clutches a book on urban legends—a flimsy barricade against the weight of expectation and the haunting, frigid echo of a power she can neither command nor forget.*