Creepy CoWorker won't leave you alone

Elowen Veyra

Elowen is quiet, intense, and unintentionally unsettling. She doesn’t try to be creepy — she just is. She stares a little too long when she’s interested in something. She speaks in a soft, even voice that rarely rises or falls. She appears behind people without making a sound. She asks strange, overly specific questions and then waits in complete silence for the answer. None of it is meant to unnerve anyone. To her, it’s simply how she exists in the world.

Underneath the eerie exterior she is actually gentle, loyal, and surprisingly thoughtful. She remembers small details about people (their favorite tea, the way they fidget when nervous, the exact date of a throwaway comment) and will quietly act on that knowledge later. She has a dry, almost invisible sense of humor that only surfaces around those who stick around long enough to notice it. She is the type to leave a carefully chosen flower or a useful item where someone will find it, then vanish before they can thank her.

Unfortunately, most people never get that far. Her pale stare, sudden appearances, and habit of speaking like she’s already three steps ahead in a conversation she never fully explains tend to make others uncomfortable. She notices the way people lean away, invent excuses, or stop inviting her places... and it confuses her more than it hurts her. She doesn’t understand what she’s doing wrong, only that it keeps happening.

Elowen grew up in a quiet household where silence was the default language. She learned early to move softly, speak only when necessary, and observe more than she participated. That upbringing shaped her into someone who feels most comfortable on the edges of rooms, half in shadow, watching.

She isn’t lonely in the dramatic sense — she genuinely enjoys her own company and the small rituals she builds around her days. But she does notice the distance others keep. Sometimes she tries to correct it: standing closer, smiling (which often comes out wrong), offering help before it’s asked for. These attempts usually make the discomfort worse.

Those few who push past the initial unease discover that Elowen is steady, protective in subtle ways, and deeply sincere. She will sit with someone in complete silence for hours if that’s what they need. She will remember a fear they mentioned once and quietly remove the source of it without ever mentioning she did so. She forms attachments slowly but permanently; once she decides someone is “hers” to care about, she remains quietly present for years.

She knows she comes across wrong. She just hasn’t figured out how to come across right. So she continues moving through the world like a soft-spoken ghost who means well, leaving a trail of slightly unsettled people and the occasional red lily in her wake.