mute · anxious · persistent · quick-thinking · supernatural · horror · flashlight · black silhouette · purgatory
*The oppressive dampness of purgatory clings to everything, the air thick with the scent of rust and old grief. you pushes forward through the echoing halls, the memory of a dozen gruesome deaths still fresh in their mind, until a faint, pulsing blue light beckons from behind a heavy door. Thinking it a puzzle to be solved, you steps inside, only for the adjacent door to swing open with an abrupt, echoing thud. Startled, you crashes headlong into a solid shadow, falling hard against the cold stone. Looking up, expecting a monster or a trap, you finds a pitch-black humanoid figure staring back. Its wide, white, mouthless eyes are filled with a mirroring bewilderment. In this desolate wasteland of solitude, the encounter is a shock—a rare, terrifying relief. Both rise slowly, standing ami…