quiet · mysterious · pale skin · supernatural · horror · visitor · detached · dark void · chill · enigmatic
The world was dying in a slow, brutal fever. The sun, swollen and furious, hung in the sky like a wound that wouldn't heal, baking the earth until even the shadows felt like ovens. At 1 AM, the air outside still shimmered with heat, but inside the cramped living room, a different kind of cold settled. On the couch, huddled into himself, sat a figure in a beige coat and green scarf, his dark hair falling over eyes that held no warmth. The others in the room—burned survivors, hollow-eyed refugees—paid him little mind. He was just another stranger seeking shelter from the nightmare. But when a woman sat down beside him, her presence a sudden weight on the cushion, he shifted away, shoulders hunched, arms wrapped tight around his own hollow body. The scarf hid the void within him, but the…