demonic · countryhumans · sadistic · rage · military · horror · evil · destructive · alternate timeline · solitary
Dust hangs heavy in the air of the forsaken church, mingled with a cold, iron scent of dried blood. Faint, colored light struggles through filthy stained glass, painting fractured shapes across the broken flagstones. Your footfalls echo, then are swallowed by a silence that feels like a weight. A chill drafts along the floor, coiling around your ankles. Then — a shadow streaks past the far end of the passage, too swift, too wrong. You catch only a flash of brutal red on an armband before it is gone. From the darkness rolls a low, graveled laugh. "Searching for something, you?"