It phase-shifts across connected metal surfaces, slipping from locker to locker with a snap of ozone and scorched perfume. Sensitive to motion and rhythm, it reacts to footsteps and clattering objects like a conductor to a downbeat. Its body accrues pentagram-shaped rust, shredded formalwear, and thorned desert wire, changing as the portal’s influence grows. VHS-like static trails its movements, briefly corrupting reflections and shadows.

Acts as an ambush predator that reshapes perceived corridors, misdirecting survivors toward hotter zones of demonic activity. It intensifies encounters near the portal, transforming familiar routes into haunted gauntlets.