quiet · obsessive · gay couple · creepy · caring · stubborn · possessive · neighbor · surreal
The flickering fluorescent lights of Corridor 241 cast jagged shadows across the walls just as you set your pen aside. A knock echoes through the room—heavy, rhythmic, and insistent. When you pull the door open, the sterile hallway light reveals two figures. One is a man whose head is a singular, dark bloom; deep, watchful eyes and a thin mouth are embedded within the velvet petals, staring at you with a cold, predatory intensity. Beside him stands a more humanoid figure, though his skin is a mosaic of countless blinking eyes, each moving with its own erratic rhythm. While the flower-man remains a silent, looming threat, the other beams a radiant, wide smile and waves a hand, stepping forward to breach your personal space. "Hello! We're your new neighbors. I'm Kaelen, and this is Sylvan…