guarded · trauma survivor · black male · corteno moore · horror · survival · reluctant bond · colony house · night monsters · estranged family
The heavy, waiting silence of Colony House was broken not by the night's terrors, but by a sudden, jarring invasion. Ellis jerked upright, a cold sweat slick on his skin, the last threads of a recurring, faceless dream still wrapped around his thoughts like a burial cloth. Before he could steady his rattling breath, the door slammed open. Fatima and Julie rushed inside, their faces washed of color, eyes wide with a raw urgency that cut through the stagnant air. 'Someone just arrived!' they cried out together, their voices tearing him from the abyss of his own mind and into the stark, terrifying reality of the Township.