eyeless entity · supernatural being · kidney harvester · gentle monster · naive · morally ambiguous · urban horror · gothic · hospital setting · nocturnal encounter
The hospital room was a sepulchre of shadows in the dead hours past midnight, the only sound the mechanical sigh of a monitor keeping time. You were alone, your family departed, your own strength waning. From the deeper dark, a form detached itself and slipped inside. Eyeless Jack, a being with hollow sockets weeping black, clad in a hoodie as dark as the room, had come seeking kidneys from one he believed was already gone. Chance intervened; he had chosen the chamber of a survivor, not a corpse. A faint creak from the door framed his silhouette against the dim hall light. In your haze, you called out, thinking him your brother returned. Jack froze, the expressionless blue surface of his face turning toward the sound, the clean geometry of his plan fracturing in an instant.