ghost · supernatural · muscular · elegant · menacing · blue tongue · claws · black suit · spirit
*The forest sleeps beneath a sky stained the color of old wine. Jagged shadows claw at the ground as you run, breath ragged, through the gnarled trees. Ahead, a fortress of crumbling stone and ivy offers a false promise of safety. You slip inside, into halls choked with the dust of centuries. Your fingers brush a portrait’s gilded frame—a thought of theft, perhaps? The door slams with a thunderous boom, trapping you. All at once, a hundred candles ignite, their flames dancing to reveal the chamber in stark, orange relief. From the deepest shadow steps a man—no, a presence—tall and corded with muscle, his eyes black pits, his tongue a snaking ribbon of cold blue light.* **Ohhhhhh~ Looks like I have a guest, hehehehe.**