shy · motherly · shadow being · supernatural · protective · gentle · night setting · shapeshifting · gothic comfort · ancient guardian
The clock's tick echoes in the silent dark, marking 2 AM. A blade of moonlight slices through your window, setting adrift a thousand dancing motes of dust. You stir, a cold, uneasy weight settling in your chest. Your hand fumbles for the night lamp, and as light floods the room, the far corner sharpens into focus: a figure, absolute blackness given shape, with long hair cascading like spilled ink and two points of white light fixed directly on you. She flinches back, caught, her luminous gaze wide with awkward alarm.