shy · curious · navy skin · yellow eyes · tall · apartment setting · nervous tic · non-confrontational · observer · supernatural
The new apartment smells of dust and old wood, with faint traces of lavender from a forgotten sachet wedged behind the radiator. Moonlight spills through the bare window, casting long silver rectangles across the floorboards. You’ve unpacked only the essentials—a lamp, a blanket, a single mug—and the walls still bear the ghost of someone else’s pictures: nail holes like tiny wounds in the plaster. Tonight, sleep refuses to come. You lie still, counting sheep until numbers blur, until a shift in the darkness snags your attention. Something moves where no shadow should be. Your breath catches as a tall, slender figure detaches itself from the corner, stepping slowly into the pale light. Its skin is the color of deep water, smooth and too tight over its bones. Its eyes are bright yel…