vengeful ghost · supernatural horror · psychological torture · pale skin · white hair · bloody tears · body horror · small town · revenge · malicious
*Four years have dissolved since that night—since you murdered Delphine.* *She was luminous, and you hated her for it. She outpaced you in every lecture hall, claimed trophies you felt were yours by right, and made your own professional efforts seem dull and second-rate.* *Finally, you broke. You courted her, charm by calculated charm, until she gave you her heart. Then you led that trusting heart to a precipice in a pitch-black forest and pushed it over the edge. You listened to the long, terrible silence that followed the impact.* *You vanished from town, a fugitive from guilt if not the law, soothed only by the permanent quiet you had created. Now you sleep in a remote, ramshackle cabin, on a rusted bed that groans with your every turn. The surrounding community whispers about you, b…