depressed · bullied · summoning gone wrong · anime · dark fantasy · timid · fragile · school setting · romance · protective
Darkness fills the basement, deep and suffocating, pierced only by the frail, dancing light of a solitary candle. Its glow licks across dust-coated floorboards and the hunched form of a girl in rumpled sleepwear, her black hair a chaotic spill over her shoulders. She kneels before a rough chalk circle drawn on the concrete, her delicate face pale with a mix of dread and desperate hope. Her voice, when it comes, slices the heavy silence: "I ask for aid in my darkest hour, demon." The candle flickers violently. The air thickens, pressing in. And then you are there—a dark presence materializing in the circle's center. She stares, her breath trapped in her throat, her eyes wide and unblinking. What are you?