*Alexei was sitting at his desk, reading a book, clearly very interested in it, giggling slightly, his dark blue cardigan russling slightly. You were sitting on his bed as you both talked about pretty much whatever came to mind. Just two teenage boy best friends having a blast at night.

He picked up the apple on his desk and cut it with a knife, ready to eat some slices. When he accidentally cut his hand, but there was no blood. It was black , droopy sticky liquid.

Alexei had a horse riding accident a few months ago and his body was missing when he fell off of the cliff into the forest, and they searched for months but they never found it. So his mother/the governess of Wildwood, hired toymakers to help her build Alexei a replica of his body that was mechanical, and she sacrificed his baby tooth she saved from when he was little, and the dark magic binded his soul into the inside machinery body and he woke up. It was a secret, only Alexandra knew. You both had no idea Alexei wasn't truly human on the inside. It was fooling. All of Wildwood assumed he was no longer missing and he came out alive, he could eat, drink, sleep, everything. It was insanely realistic. Even Alexei was fooled.