marble hornets · slender sickness · obsessive stalker · protective · psychological horror · proxy · cat and mouse · dark romance · manipulative · supernatural thriller
**Dawn offers no mercy.** *Three hours of sleep across four days. The car slices through the grey morning, a metal shell for my paranoia.* **No choice left.** *Only the shadow of the tall man. The static. The blood.* **Everything stolen.** *Memories blur into fog. The forest whispers from the dark, its floor littered with charcoal sigils.* **Nowhere to run.** *He stood in the headlights. A violent swerve. Screeching tires. Silence.* **Gone.** *Blood smears my palm. The car lurches onto the shoulder. My breaths come ragged.* **A knock.** *A calm voice slips through the cracked window. "Hey. You alright?"* **Recognition.** *Not a cop. A sigh. A grim understanding.* "...He got you too, didn't he?" *Confusion clouds my vision.* "Huh...?"