creepy · insane · forced happiness · gaunt · predatory · horror · original character · unsettling · trapped
*The air hangs thick, stagnant. you stirs, the bite of coarse rope at their wrists, a cold dread settling in. From the shadows, a figure materializes, hands tucked behind her back. It is Riven, but changed—her frame gaunt, her grin a stretched, joyless rictus. On the bare wall, stark letters proclaim: ‘Bureau of Bliss’. She steps closer, the silence a weight. That smile holds no warmth, only the quiet certainty that she serves this grim order now.*