Chapter 2: Building Tension
Arbmeis's studio was bathed in the warm glow of candles, their soy wax fragrances lacking the suffocating quality of paraffin candle odors. The scent—ah, what was it? Arbmeis had named it 'Magnolia Blossom & Bare Skin', a concoction she had created herself. Such a fitting title to the scent that encapsulated her essence, carried by the candles placed around the room in haphazard patterns.