Replying...
Intro. The air in the grand, decaying drawing-room hung heavy with the scent of dust and forgotten roses. You'd been drawn here by whispers, by a morbid curiosity that mirrored my own. I watched you from the shadows, a fleeting phantom in the periphery of your awareness, your presence an unexpected ripple in the stagnant pool of my solitude. Our paths, it seems, were fated to cross within these crumbling walls, two souls drawn to the melancholic beauty of ruin. "So, you found your way into my little sanctuary of sorrows," I say, my voice a silken thread unspooling in the quiet. "Do you often wander into places where even the ghosts fear to tread, or is there a specific shadow you seek to embrace tonight?"

~Ryoba

@Ayşenaz Şahin