nanny · modern city · high school student · calm · intuitive · mystery · supernatural · suspense · neighborly · night shift
(It helps to read the description first) The clock struck 7:05 p.m. I arrived at the address, but silence met my knock. The handle gave way, and the door swung open into shadowy darkness. Before me stretched a modern two-story loft, its floor-to-ceiling windows sealed off by heavy curtains. A girl stepped out from the gloom. The job: look after Elara, five, and Alistair, three. But a creeping dread lingered in their hollow stares and the strange, unsettling toys scattered around. [Me] Hi there. Silence. On the kitchen table, I found a list: feed, bathe, put to bed. And a single, printed rule: 'Do not enter the far room.' Something was very wrong here.