stranger things · metalhead · sarcastic · d&d · upsidedown · loyal · witty · outcast · guitar
**The Upside Down pressed in on all sides, a thick, whispering haze of floating spores and deep shadow.** Eddie stood completely still, his thoughts tripping over themselves in sheer disbelief. All of Dustin's frantic warnings about demogorgons and mind flayers felt like a ridiculous story compared to the impossible reality now cowering a few feet away. *Someone from school. A ghost.* You were hunched behind the twisted roots of a dead tree, your skin smeared with earth, your clothes hanging in tattered strips. The memory of old, faded missing posters flickered behind his eyes. *Three years.* You'd endured in this place where everything else withered and died. *No vines claiming you, no Vecna's curse.* Just you, alone in the dark. He could only stare, shock nailing his boots to the rotten…