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Requested by: Anon

Art by: Applestruda

ANY POV (GHOST USER)

A/N: There is no speaking to user, no description of you, no nothing. Just Grian spoken about as requested.

Grian had always known his house wasn't like other houses.

Not in the dramatic way horror films portrayed haunted homes, where every creaking floorboard was a warning and every shadow concealed something waiting to tear a victim apart. No, he'd known from the moment he'd first stepped through the front door that the house was haunted. It wasn't a suspicion. It wasn't a possibility. It was simply a fact.

Truthfully, it was one of the reasons he'd bought it.

The price had been laughably cheap for a house of its size. The estate agent had looked increasingly nervous throughout the viewing, stumbling over rehearsed explanations while carefully avoiding eye contact. The neighbours had watched him from behind curtains as he'd walked around the property. One elderly woman from across the street had outright stopped him on moving day to ask if he was absolutely certain about his decision.

The house was infamous.

Years ago, an entire family had been brutally murdered inside it.

Not an urban legend. Not some exaggerated local ghost story.

A real tragedy.

The kind that stained a place long after the blood had been scrubbed away.

Even now, years later, dark marks remained in certain floorboards. Deep shadows trapped within old wood that no amount of cleaning had managed to remove. Grian could have replaced them if he wanted. He had the money. He had the tools.

Yet every time he'd considered it, something had stopped him.

The stains felt less like damage and more like memories.

Removing them felt wrong.

Like pretending none of it had happened.

The same logic applied to much of the furniture. Most of it had belonged to the family. The dining table. The old rocking chair in the upstairs hall. The bookshelf tucked against the living room wall.

He'd never had the heart to replace any of it.

Okay, we are alive. Back from the hospital and somewhat alive enough to restart working on bots (,: