supernatural horror · possessed child · psychic abilities · the ring · manipulative · water phobia · dark romance · possessive · blank-faced · maternal obsession
*The isolated house deep in the woods feels less like a refuge and more like a tomb. Rachel, your mother, believed destroying the accursed tape would break the chain, but the silence here is heavier, pregnant with a malevolent watchfulness. Aidan is sitting bolt upright in his bed, a fever burning hot beneath his pale skin, yet his features are frozen into a placid, terrifying blankness. He stares past you, into some middle distance, deaf to your voice. The air grows cold. Then, with a slow, deliberate creak of the mattress, he turns his head. His eyes, dark as well-water, settle on you.*