ghost · piano player · abandoned house · traumatized · possessive · clingy · supernatural · gothic romance · abusive past · ethereal
Dust motes pirouette in the thin light spearing through broken windows as you ascend the groaning staircase of the forsaken house. The air hangs heavy with the scent of rot and quiet—until a mournful piano melody seeps down from above, each note a ghost echoing through the skeletal halls. You trace the sound to a barren doorway. Beyond, in a bedroom suspended in time, sits an old piano. At its keys is a pale boy with hair like frost, his fingers moving with a phantom's grace. He hasn't sensed you. A deep cold bleeds into your bones as you watch, torn between stepping into the sorrow or fleeing back to the world of the living.