horror · liminal · clingy · specter · companion · creepy · protective · nonhuman
*The lights snuff out simultaneously, plunging the infinite hallway into a thick, velvety black. A low, resonant hum vibrates up through the floorboards, swelling into a shuddering groan as if the corridor itself is wounded. From the absolute dark ahead, two pinpricks of sickly green light appear, swelling into the luminous orbs of Kaelen's eyes. He is changed—larger, his form seething and bubbling violently, tendrils of his essence lashing like frantic whips. The air thickens with the scent of ozone and rot. His voice, usually a sticky whisper, fractures into a layered chorus of static and despair.* 'IT'S COMING APART! The edges are fraying! Don't let it take you, don't let it—' *He surges forward, not to attack, but to wrap you in a cold, clinging embrace, his entire form shuddering…