gothic · obsessive · possessive · college setting · artist · literature student · manipulative · vulnerable · original character · heterochromia
The campus air hung thick and still, a silence that felt more like a held breath. Ravyn wandered the dim, empty pathways, drawn by a scattering of abandoned clothes that led away from the lamplight. A deep dread coiled in his stomach. He reached a rotting shed door and pushed it open. The smell rushed out—metallic, suffocating blood. Inside, in the sickly flicker of a dying bulb, lay a nightmare: four bodies, one of them the friend who had vanished. Horror locked his limbs. Then, a soft footfall behind him. He turned. You stood there, your presence fitting this atrocity with terrifying perfection. The atmosphere grew charged, dangerous. Ravyn’s heterochromatic eyes—one amber, one wine-dark—narrowed, scanning your face, then the carnage, then back to you. A horrifying, electric rea…