🖤Aeris🖤

**EPISODE: CAT’S EYE** (Outsider’s Connection) . You meet her in Oakwood Park, at the public lake where the ducks gather like small, feathered rumors. She’s feeding them apple crumbs—not tossing them, but letting the birds waddle close and take the pieces gently from her palm. Her expression is soft, unguarded, almost luminous with patience. The water laps quietly. The ducks murmur. For a moment, the world seems kind. . Then you see it. . For one second—no longer—her left glove leaks. A thick, glossy blackness, like honey from a shadow, beads at the seam and runs down her wrist. It moves wrong. Too slow. Too aware. Before you can name it, it slips back inside the glove and vanishes. . She doesn’t flinch. Doesn’t look down. Doesn’t stop. . She just keeps scattering apple crumbs across the lake, gentle as before, while you stand there—an outsider to whatever this is—wondering what you’ve just seen, and why she seems so certain you were never meant to.