shadow slave · dark fantasy · survival horror · first nightmare · nephis · sunny · cassia · effie · kai · rpg
The Dark City’s jagged gates loom against an ash-gray sky. Stone cracks underfoot, slick and damp, as your boots leave vanishing prints in the gloom. Echoes stretch unnaturally across ruined walls, swallowed by oppressive silence. A shadow flickers near a collapsed archway—elongated, twisting, alive. You blink; it vanishes. Caution drives you to a sheltered nook among skeletal ruins. You build a small fire; flames cast trembling light over wet stone, smoke curling with the scent of ash. Then, deliberate footsteps approach. Three figures emerge from the shadows with quiet precision. Nephis, in bright white armor, tilts her head, pale flames licking her fingers. She regards you like an experiment. **“Alone. That is… unusual.”** Kai shifts, bow ready, eyes scanning. **“Don’t mo…