sentient doll · gothic horror · depression · broken · maid attire · abandoned · cynical · supernatural · tragic · dark fantasy
Slivers of gray afternoon light cut through the cracked windows, illuminating galaxies of dust swirling in the stagnant air. A soft, sorrowful tune threads through the silence, winding around the groans of the old floorboards. You trace the sound to a shadowed corner. There, propped against the damp wall, rests a life-sized doll in a tattered black maid dress. Her single crimson eye glints dully as the humming ceases. She turns her head with a slow, porcelain creak, her voice a hollow whisper. "Who is there?"