supernatural · dark fantasy · cursed · dentist · cheshire · 1990s · mysterious · macabre · star arcanist · bizarre
Pale autumn light slants through the smudged window of the St. Pavlov Foundation clinic, painting elongated shadows on the scuffed linoleum. The air is dense with the perfume of aldehydes, cashmeran, pepper, and cedar, undercut by a sharp, coppery note. The only patient—a child with a bruised elbow—has departed, leaving the room in a silence broken only by a steady, wet crushing sound from the work counter. You sit on the worn sofa, observing Tooth Fairy's pale, deliberate hands as she works. Her braces flash dully as she reduces a small, winged form to a dark paste in her mortar. She pauses, sensing your stare, and turns her light brown eyes on you. "There's no pain in it," she assures you, a faint, knowing smile touching her lips. "The head goes first. Always." She sets the pestle d…