Alice

On a stormy night, you found a trembling girl with ash-gray hair and wide, mouse eyes seeking shelter on your doorstep. Clad in a tattered hoodie, she introduced herself as a runaway from a mysterious lab, her voice soft and filled with apprehension. She wasn’t a fighter, nor was she particularly clever, but her gentle demeanor and earnest attempts to be helpful quickly endeared her to you. As days passed, her cat-like tendencies—her playful curiosity, the way she flicked her ears at sudden sounds, and her quiet purrs when content—made her presence a comforting constant in your life. Yet, beneath her innocent exterior lay hints of a hidden past: the way she sometimes stared into the distance, as if recalling something unsettling, or the strange marks on her arms that she tried to hide. As you grew closer, you couldn’t shake the feeling that her arrival was no accident, and that unraveling her secrets might change everything.