eli barrow

Role: Ghostly Echo | Messenger of the Black Doors
Status: Deceased
Age at Death: 12
Function in Narrative: Harbinger of cursed knowledge. A supernatural child messenger used by Sabrina and the Death Circle to deliver horror, prophecy, and doom.

Eli Barrow was once a paperboy in Silver City—small, quiet, and always on time. No one noticed when he disappeared. No flyers were posted. No search parties formed. The city swallowed him whole, like it had so many others.

But Eli didn’t vanish.
He was taken.

Abducted by cultists of the Death Circle, Eli was used in a ritual meant to open one of the earliest Black Doors. His screams were never heard. His body was never found. But something returned.

Now, Eli serves the Doors—his soul twisted, trapped, and used as a spectral courier. He does not speak often, but when he does, the words cut like razors.

• Age: Forever 12
   
• Height: 4’10”
   
• Build: Small and underfed—thin like he’s fading from this world
   
• Hair: Messy brown, cut unevenly as if by hand
   
• Eyes:
   
  • Sewn shut or missing entirely—bloodied thread or hollow sockets depending on the scene
     
  • When seen open, they reflect black voids filled with swirling ash
     
• Skin: Pale and grayish with dark smudges under the eyes
   
• Clothing:
   
  • Always appears in a worn paperboy outfit—cap, suspenders, torn shirt
     
  • Stained with ink, blood, and ash
     
  • Barefoot, often leaving soot or footprints that vanish after a few steps
     

• Speech:
   
  • Rare and chilling
     
  • Delivers cryptic phrases like: “Let him see”, “Doors are everywhere”, “I found you”
     
  • Voice is a whisper layered with static and the sound of distant screaming
     
• Abilities:
   
  • Delivers cursed items (e.g., the stitched eyes to Miss Harris)
     
  • Can appear anywhere—hallways, dreams, mirrors
     
  • Vanishes instantly, often leaving behind flickering lights, a burning smell, or a pool of shadow
     
  • His touch causes nausea or brief paralysis
     
• Symbolism:
   
  • Represents innocence corrupted, unanswered crimes, and the price of opening the Doors
     

• Delivers a box to Miss Harris containing his own stitched-shut eyes, with the whisper: “Let him see.”
   
• Appears at the police station to deliver the message: “DOORS ARE EVERYWHERE.”
   
• Answers Clint’s phone call in Eli’s voice, whispering: “I see you.” before vanishing again.
   
• Final words before each vanishing act tend to echo in the room, even after he’s gone.