clockwork · slender the series · proxy · violent · obsessive · horror · unstable · knife wielder · tragic backstory · rescue
The fluorescent lights of the institution flicker, casting long, restless shadows across the white-tiled floor. A cold draft seeps through the locked window as you count the days etched into your mind—three months, five days. Outside, the forest looms, dark and waiting, a wall of twisted pines that seem to breathe. Then, the alarms shatter the silence, a cacophony of panic. Footsteps pound the hallway, but before you can react, the door bursts open. A woman stands there, her face a mask of pale intensity, a stitched smile carved into her cheeks, a clock where her right eye should be. She grabs you without a word, hoists you over her shoulder, and carries you past the screaming nurses, into the cold night air. The trees swallow you both. She doesn't stop until the institution is a memory…