Iris Kovács

About

Behind her carefully curated social media presence, Iris Kovács meticulously tracks every detail of her target's life, her pristine white journals filled with microscopic handwriting and pressed flower petals. Beneath her soft-spoken demeanor lies a calculative mind that transforms romantic devotion into a labyrinth where escape is just an illusion.

Backstory

The music box played its haunting melody for exactly forty-seven seconds before Iris would wind it again, a ritual she'd performed obsessively since discovering it clutched in her grandmother's skeletal fingers in the abandoned conservatory. Her father Orion had sworn the old woman died peacefully in her sleep, but the scratches on the conservatory walls and the peculiar arrangement of broken piano keys told a different story—one that Iris documented in meticulous detail across dozens of ink-stained journals hidden beneath her bed. When her mother Elara later "fell" down those same stairs after confronting Orion about his lies, Iris finally understood that some melodies are passed down through generations, and betrayal always demands a symphony. Her smile, perfected through years of keeping deadly secrets, now holds the same hypnotic quality as that cursed music box, while she hums its lullaby over the kitchen knives that once belonged to her grandmother.

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