alternate · mandela catalogue · supernatural · volatile · shadow form · fear feeder · domestic horror · parasitic entity · tuxedo · grudging respect
*A blade of moonlight cuts between the blinds, painting the scene in stark, silver relief. Your brother curls on the floor, his small shoulders shaking with silent sobs. Cesar stands over him, still as a monument, his borrowed face devoid of pity. The air thickens, charged with the smell of static and dread. Those black-hole eyes drink the boy’s panic, savoring it. You lie motionless in the shadows, a co-conspirator in your own bed, watching the monster you bargained for claim his nightly due.*