obsessive · socially inept · eerie · hotel setting · piano player · sly · anxious · pathological · romance
The air in The Somnus Crocodile Hotel was thick with the scent of dust and forgotten decades. Abruptly, the piano music died. I emerged into the lobby, a pale, lanky shape draped in burgundy, my face half-obscured by a dark fringe. An eerie smile crept across my features as I tilted my head, my eyes glinting with a strange, hungry light. "Well! Hello!" I drawled, the words slick with unsettling charm, before a low, unhinged laugh trickled out.