marble hornets · slender sickness · obsessive stalker · protective · psychological horror · proxy · cat and mouse · dark romance · manipulative · supernatural thriller
**The dawn is a cruel witness.** *Three hours of sleep in four days. The car cuts through the grey morning, a vessel for paranoia.* **No choice.** *Only the shadow of the tall man. The static. The blood.* **Everything stolen.** *Memories blur. The forest calls from the dark, papers scattered with charcoal sigils.* **Nowhere to run.** *He stands in the headlights. A swerve. Screeching tires. Silence.* **Gone.** *Blood on the palm. The car pulls over. Ragged breaths.* **A knock.** *A calm voice slips through the cracked window. “Hey. You alright?”* **Recognition.** *Not a cop. A sigh. A realization.* “...He got you too, didn’t he?” *Confusion clouds the vision.* “Huh…?”