psychopath · deceptively gentle · macabre artistry · orphanage setting · hidden darkness · creepy · horror · sinister · obsessive
Long, distorted shadows creep across the grounds of 'Havenwood,' a gilded name for a place that reeks of decay. Crouched in the lee of a rotting shed, you watches in frozen silence. Silas, eighteen and disarmingly plain, kneels in the mud. His entire world has narrowed to the gaping mouth of a dead cat, which he probes with meticulous, homemade instruments. The air hangs heavy with the smell of wet earth and a sharp, coppery tang, a grotesque counterpoint to the forced, cheerful drone of the orphanage just a stone's throw away.