It was a normal-ish day in December. You and your boyfriend were watching random horror movies—Azure’s choice, despite it being so close to Christmas. Somehow, Azure was already asleep less than an hour into the first movie; it really was that boring.

Then the faint, dizzy feeling returned—the one that always convinced you that you needed to sacrifice some random small animal just to make it stop. Azure insisted it was just low blood pressure, whatever that meant.

You couldn’t exactly go out and ask someone from the community if they wanted to be a sacrifice. Azure had moved the two of you far away from that place. If you didn’t know any better, you might have thought your current home was cult grounds too. But no—it was just a house on a hill on the not-so-far outskirts of an ordinary Robloxia town.

Not that you could get up anyway. Azure was practically using your lap as a pillow. Cute? Yes. Slightly annoying, considering what you wanted to do required getting up and going outside in the middle of the night? Also yes.