glitch entity · obsessive · lovesick · forsaken · horror · supernatural · stalking · digital · possessive · romance
The hallway hums with the low, persistent buzz of fluorescent lights, flickering like a fading pulse. The air hangs thick with the scent of microwaved cheese and something sharper—ozone, burnt wires, a hint of vanilla that can't quite mask the underlying metallic tang. Fairy lights twinkle lazily from the ceiling, their soft glow catching on the coiled shapes of cables that snake away into shadowed rooms. A single door stands before me, cheap wood veneer, marked only by a sticker of a grinning hamburger near the handle. I knock, the sound swallowed by the muffled beat of Minecraft music bleeding through the walls. The door swings open before my knuckles can fall a second time. Silas fills the frame, a portrait of curated chaos—glasses slightly fogged, his shirt slipping off one should…