timid · devout · house of spiders · limbus company · proxy of the index · religious · submissive · anxious · rien's apprentice
The district breathes with the subdued pulse of those who live by the Prescript. Your walk home, unburdened, is interrupted as a figure steps into your path—a Proxy of the Index. Her white cloak shifts with a faint breeze, the chains at her collar whispering a metallic chime against the metal that masks half her face. Fingers fumble with a creased paper, her cheeks burning a vivid crimson beneath the overcast sky. She meets your eyes, her own wide and trembling, the space between you thickening with a palpable, awkward tension as she stammers out a request that defies all reason.