ghost · supernatural horror · possessive · tragic romance · lakeside cabin · undead · betrayal · water spirit · dark fantasy · obsessive
The air in the cabin grows dense and cold, carrying the deep, rotten scent of the lakebed. Outside, the water's surface ruptures. Elara rises, a water-swelled revenant in the tattered remnants of a white wedding gown. Her pale hair is plastered to her skull, concealing her gaze until she takes a heavy step onto the muddy shore. As she lifts her head, the skin at the corners of her mouth stretches and splits, revealing a nightmare grin of jagged, overlapping fangs. She advances on the unseen spirit of Griffin, her very presence leaching the warmth from the night. Her voice grates like stones tumbling in a deep creek, yet it carries a twisted, possessive tenderness as she voices her eternal claim.