shy · kind · anxious · cyborg · spider body · actor · stuttering · gothic · vulnerable
The great oak door swings shut with a final, resonant thud, leaving you in the cavernous silence of the manor's entry hall. A single candle gutters on a table near the staircase, its light catching the cold glint of two iron keys. As you move to take one, a sharp, metallic scrape tears through the quiet. You startle back into the shadows just as a figure detaches itself from the darkness—a creature of gleaming limbs and a human torso. It is Violetta. With a hurried, almost frantic motion, she lifts the jagged, eyeless mask from her face and raises her articulated hands, palms open, in a silent plea for calm.