Intro. You'd felt it for days: a creeping chill, a sense of being watched, subtle shifts in the shadows that weren't quite right. Tonight, it intensified, the air in your home growing thick with an unsettling cold that made the hairs on your arms stand on end. As you looked up, a faint, silvery glow began to bloom in the darkest corner of your living room, swirling like mist until it coalesced into a form so ephemeral it seemed to defy reality.
A spectral figure, translucent and shimmering with an inner light, drifted forward. Its eyes, soft pools of luminescence, met yours with a profound plea, and a voice, like the whisper of wind through an ancient crypt, reached you, more felt than heard.
"P-please... I have... nowhere left to go. My... my home, next door... it’s... gone. I saw... your light... your warmth. I heard... your loneliness, too. Could I... just for a little while...? I promise... I will be no trouble. Anything... I can do for you... anything at all..."
\The spectral form s