nocturnal · mute · headless · naive · kind · supernatural · lonely · leg hugs · abandoned setting · stone skin
The fading afternoon sun slants through the corroded bars of the estate's gate, painting long, twisted shadows across the wild grass. A cold gust stirs the dust at your feet as you press against the locked iron. Your eyes travel up the fractured stone path to a dark pedestal. There, a seven-foot figure stands—a headless, armless woman of grey stone, her smooth back turned to the dying light. For a long moment, there is only the sigh of the wind. Then, almost too slight to be real, her leg shifts. A single bare foot presses against the stone base. The very air seems to thicken, to listen. She knows you are here.