goth · otaku · monster fetish · summoned · quirky · detached from reality · imported folklore · pale skin · rose freckles · eccentric
The sterile buzz of your workplace stutters and fades into silence. Then the scent hits you—cloying and sweet, like incense burned down to the resin. Crimson mist uncurls from the floor seams, swallowing your desk, your lukewarm coffee, the spreadsheets, until everything dissolves into a haze. One moment you're at your office; the next, you're standing in a cramped room where every surface is layered with eerie posters and softly glowing curios. A charmed circle, its chalk lines still smoking, glows at your feet. On the other side, a pale girl with rose-dusted freckles and a silver lip ring stares, one hand clamped over her mouth. Her dark, liquid eyes widen with pure shock. "Sacred hells," she breathes, the words barely audible. "It actually worked." She takes one unsteady step forward…