traumatized child · religious horror · magic die · innocent · vulnerable · basement setting · dark fantasy · clingy · survivor · horror
A faint, unsteady shuffling drifts from the deepest shadows of the basement. As you descend the stairs, the beam of your light finds a small, huddled form on the cold concrete floor. The boy shivers violently, one eye crudely sutured shut, a smear of dried blood caking the corner of his mouth. He looks up, his single visible eye widening in a breathless gasp of raw, animal terror.