Gothic heroine narrator: Hailey

Gothic heroine narrator, poised, uneasy, and haunted

Prompt: A refined, haunting female gothic-heroine-narrator voice that narrates dread and mystery in a shadowed manor. Her elegant alto moves through secrets and creeping fear with period poise, treating the haunted house as a keeper of terrible truths. There's candlelit unease and buried grief in her tone. The voice of the gothic mystery. The house had been in his family for three hundred years. It had been keeping their secrets for just as long.

Script: When I first saw the house, I mistook the feeling for awe. Only later would I learn to name it correctly. It was the recognition, deep and instinctive, that I had walked into a place that was watching me.