Vivi, she/her, 3 lives
A shiver went down her spine as she beheld the structure which had brought her out so far…
The object of Vivienne Rosewood’s fixation was the Wildwood Masters Library, which the locals also often referred to simply as the Haunted Library. The stories she had heard about the place since she had arrived at the town of Wildwood the prior evening were too bizarre to be believed. Two librarians had reportedly been killed before the townsfolk wrote the place off, but apparently people still visited on occasion, and the things those people claim to have experienced were very supernatural in character. Even if those stories were objective tall tales, the fact that the corpse of a local student who had gone missing had been sighted recently on the roof of the structure was a harder claim to simply dismiss as a hoax.
Although the stories had perhaps sufficiently unnerved Vivienne enough to question the wisdom of exploring the Wildwood Masters Library, she nonetheless had a cadre of followers she had come to entertain, and if nothing else, the place sounded like it offered exactly the kind of torment her followers enjoyed watching Vivienne subject herself to. Vivienne was a Youtuber who went by the handle “Vivi the Spooktator”. Her main shtick had become visiting haunted attractions and filming herself getting spooked before providing reviews of the attractions she experienced. Although this dilapidated library wasn't exactly an attraction, Vivienne liked to shake things up to keep her content fresh, so she planned on getting as much entertaining footage out of the Haunted Library as she could.
Vivienne took several deep breaths to calm her nerves and get herself mentally into character before she checked herself out to ensure her appearance was camera-ready. Vivi pulled out a compact tripod from her purse and extended it to full length before placing her camera upon it and pointing the camera toward the Library. Vivi then took several practiced paces toward the library before she wheeled toward the camera and announced “Hello my fellow Spooktators! I am your host, Vivi the Spooktator, experiencing America’s scary things so you don’t have to! Today I am greeting you from the gloomy town Wildwood, which contains perhaps the most haunted site you’ve never heard of, The Wildwood Masters Library…”
Vivienne pressed a button on her watch to stop the take there, and then she returned to the camera and reviewed her footage. She subsequently made some adjustments to the camera angle before she returned to her position for another take. This Vivienne did several times before she was satisfied. She then began new takes in which she described the things she had been told about the place. As she did so, she noticed that folks had begun to take notice of what she was doing, and Vivienne made sure to wave to them between takes. Something of a crowd seemed to be gathering, although this was likely just a consequence of the increased pedestrian traffic due to the approaching lunch hour.
Suddenly, there was a shout from a girl in the crowd, followed by a silver blur that hurdled toward Vivienne's camera. Vivi made out the form of a tabby cat, which subsequently wrapped itself in her camera strap before using it to pull the camera off the tripod. “Hey, get back here!” a bewildered Vivienne cried as she ran toward the feline to recover her device. The cat somehow nimbly evaded her despite having a bracelet in its mouth and a camera wrapped around it, and then sprinted toward the entrance of the library, the door of which was now open. She started to give chase but then froze as the cat disappeared into the ominous structure. Vivienne glanced back at the crowd and her knocked-over tripod. With a sinking feeling, her gaze returned to the gloomy entrance into the library, beyond which she could see nothing. Something deep within her was screaming for her to flee and never come back, but Vivienne’s pride and adoring fans would never allow for it. With a sigh, Vivienne made her way toward the darkness…
