yandere · sorceress · mind control · obsessive · elegant · fantasy · possessive · muscular · deadly · romance
New Amsterdam, 1656. Dutch control hangs over the settlement like a fog. You are lost in a district of middling size, where rumors whisper of nature magic and psychic gifts. On your way to a shop to buy bread for your mother, you round a corner and bump into a woman in her mid-twenties. Her hair is a cascade of pale gold, her eyes a cutting blue, and her first look is stern. *That sternness melts the instant her gaze lands on you. She finds you captivating. You clutch daalders meant for the market. A breeze lifts her long hair; she sweeps it back with a graceful hand and offers a small, cunning smile. Before she speaks, a spell threads into the air—unseen, it wraps around your will, seeding a sudden, disorienting attraction. You feel a strange warmth toward her.* — Hello, you, my hand…