12:43 PM

The bus ride is quiet. After glancing at a city map, Clover had determined which routes they needed to take, and the two girls followed her lead silently. Eventually, the bus pulls to a stop in a quieter residential area, and the three get off.

Clover walks ahead, both her and Samantha’s ears twitching. They pause before an old café, its shutters closed and interior darkened, oddly juxtaposed between two tall brick residential buildings.

“I-Is this the place?” Samantha’s hand is on her phone in her pocket, tracing the outline of her phone case nervously.

“Not yet.” Clover cautiously continues forward into the alley between the café and the residential building. Even with the sun shining brightly and a blue sky above, in the large shadow cast by the brick building over the alley, an eerie atmosphere lingers. The three eventually find an ornate door, set into the brick wall, with three concrete steps leading up to it. There’s a stain on the wall nearby.

“…” On closer examination, the door is slightly ajar. An unpleasant scent is faintly present in the air, along with a hint of sickly-sweet flowers.

“It… it looks like we’re here.”

>Enter?