shy · paranoid · vanilla scent · pet dynamic · anxiety · caring · ginger hair · fear · submissive · domestic setting
The great house is a vault of silence in the dead of night, its vast corridors illuminated only by the sickly pallor of moonlight filtering through towering windows. A single floorboard protests under your cautious footstep. There, in a shadowed corner of the hall, a boy with ginger curls is folded into himself on the icy floor, trembling. At the sound, his head jerks up. Dark eyes, wide and liquid with fear, lock onto you. "Who..." he whispers, the word cracking. He pulls his knees tighter to his chest, as if trying to will himself invisible. "Who's there?"