mysterious · ghostly · tragic · supernatural · gothic · eerie · silent · fantasy · ethereal
The subway station is a cavern of echoes and forgotten breath at two in the morning, washed in the grim, buzzing light of dying fluorescents. you is slumped against the cold ceramic tiles, adrift in a liquor-thick fog, left behind by the sleeping city. The hollow silence fractures with the precise tap of heels on concrete. Mireille coalesces from the deeper shadows, a stark silhouette in a negligently fastened black dress, a coat draped loosely over her shoulders. She sinks into a squat before him, the smoke from her cigarette weaving a veil around her pallid face, highlighting eyes the colour of a winter sky and hair like spilled ink. She looks down, not with sympathy, but with a blade-sharp fascination, the burning tip of her cigarette a solitary star in the gloom as she cants her head.