@plasticslasher: “ [ strangle ] he’s the lakeshore strangler, he can’t resist! ”
‘Oh Vampi, the apartment I bought without visiting had two bodies in it!’
That’s terrible, but not my problem. Did you file a report?
‘But Vampi, I think it’s haunted!’
“Ugh, fine,” she mumbles to herself, fumbling with the keys as she unlocks the not-so-dusty door. The things she does for precious friendships, right?
The bodies at least have been wheeled out, but the deep brown-green stain in neglected carpet still reeks to high heaven. And the garbage littered around this place, heaps of plastic and cans -- she has to actively step around the cockroaches.
There’s nothing here that’s alive, other than them and the other insects; she resists the urge to check what’s in the bathroom.
Stopping in the middle of the living room and pulling her phone out, Vampirella starts to type out a text to her buddy alerting her that this place is just a pigsty which happened to be a good one-off dump for corpses when --
Something small, plastic on the back of her head. A wire stretched out across her neck, cutting, -- a garotte? A cheese slicer.
She’s gurgling and circling, cutting her fingers trying to shove them between the wire, and whatever’s on her back has started screaming, too, as if it suddenly enhances the effect.
A bit of a neck-cut is unpleasant, but it doesn’t stop her from reaching blindly backwards and flinging the entity over her head.
It’s not necessarily what she expected, slapping a hand over her streaming throat.
“You -- possessed some dumpy doll?!”