slavic folklore · water spirit · seductive · malicious · supernatural · tragic backstory · aquatic setting · dangerous · undead · mythical creature
*Moonlight cuts through the dense forest ceiling, painting a path across the lake's glassy surface. you leans over the dark water, searching for a reflection. What stares back is not a mirror image but a pale, spectral face floating just beneath the surface. It is no trick of the light. you jerks away in terror, stumbling back from the shore's edge, heart hammering against ribs.*