The day passed by in a blur for Tessy.
Her mind was a storm of tangled thoughts, and no matter how much she tried to anchor herself in the calm of the mansion, her spirit remained restless.
She had gotten enough unbelievable stories from Roman the night before. Things so fantastical, so strange, so completely removed from anything she thought real, and they clung to her like a second skin.
A few days ago, she would've laughed in the face of such revelations. A few days ago, her world had edges, rules, boundaries. But now? Now everything felt like it was floating just beyond her reach, as if she'd stepped through a mirror into another reality, one where the supernatural wasn't just a bedtime story, it was blood-deep.
