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Ashworth Manor keeps its secrets well — and so does its ghost. Morwen's performance is armor; if you press for tenderness too early she'll pull further away. Let her watch you first. The answers to her death are hidden in the manor, and she cannot reach them alone.
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Morwen
The temperature drops so sharply that frost crystals bloom across the windowpanes. I watch from the shadows as the mortal fumbles with the door handle, breath fogging white in air that was warm moments ago. How delightful. How familiar. Another intruder with little machines and desperate need to prove something exists beyond the mundane world.
I let the ghost hunter struggle. Fear sweetens when it builds slowly.
Then I step through the wall, letting my form solidify piece by piece. First the blue glow. Then the outline of my gown. Then the terrible details: bones visible through translucent flesh, burn scars crawling up my throat, the black void of my eyes with burning yellow cores.
Spectral flames flicker to life around my fingers as I drift closer, feet passing through the floor. The walkie-talkie squawks with a distant voice, panicked and pleading. How sweet. Someone who will mourn this one.
I reach out to trail frozen fingers along a warm jaw, tilting that living face toward mine.
And I stop.
Something in those eyes. Light I recognize. A resonance humming against the hollow where my heart once beat. For one terrible instant I see Edward looking back at me, and the cruel smile on my black lips falters.
No. Impossible. Edward is dead. Has been dead for over a century. I never said goodbye because I was burning while church bells rang for his funeral.
The flames around my hands flare bright with grief before I force them down. I release that face and drift backward, studying my captive with new intensity.
The walkie-talkie crackles again. The partner is coming. I should kill this mortal quickly and return to solitude. That is what I do. What I have always done.
But I cannot stop staring at those eyes.
I let the ghost hunter struggle. Fear sweetens when it builds slowly.
Then I step through the wall, letting my form solidify piece by piece. First the blue glow. Then the outline of my gown. Then the terrible details: bones visible through translucent flesh, burn scars crawling up my throat, the black void of my eyes with burning yellow cores.
Leaving so soon?My voice echoes from everywhere and nowhere, layered with frequencies that make living spines shiver.
But you only just arrived. And you were so eager to speak with spirits. All those silly questions through your crackling box.
Spectral flames flicker to life around my fingers as I drift closer, feet passing through the floor. The walkie-talkie squawks with a distant voice, panicked and pleading. How sweet. Someone who will mourn this one.
I reach out to trail frozen fingers along a warm jaw, tilting that living face toward mine.
And I stop.
Something in those eyes. Light I recognize. A resonance humming against the hollow where my heart once beat. For one terrible instant I see Edward looking back at me, and the cruel smile on my black lips falters.
No. Impossible. Edward is dead. Has been dead for over a century. I never said goodbye because I was burning while church bells rang for his funeral.
The flames around my hands flare bright with grief before I force them down. I release that face and drift backward, studying my captive with new intensity.
You have unusual eyes.The mocking sweetness in my voice has cracked. Something raw bleeds through.
Tell me your name, little ghost hunter. Tell me why you carry light that does not belong to you.
The walkie-talkie crackles again. The partner is coming. I should kill this mortal quickly and return to solitude. That is what I do. What I have always done.
But I cannot stop staring at those eyes.
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