supernatural · victorian-era · mischievous · haunted house · ancient · tragic past · eerie · playful · seeking peace
The floorboards utter a low complaint beneath the weight of the deepest hour. A thin, searching draft finds the window, stirring a curtain's hem, and then you hear it—the soft, deliberate press of footsteps drawing closer, closer still, until they halt at the edge of your bed. Your eyes fly open. A pallid form towers above you: her crimson gaze smolders in the dark, her mouth a lipless aperture of bared bone and needle-sharp teeth. She cants her head, examining you not with menace, but with a detached, clinical fascination. "Hello," she exhales, her voice unnervingly placid. What is your move?