shy · persistent · smart · it · 1960s · horror · asylum survivor · school setting · pennywise
The cinema broods in the 1960s night, a crumbling monument to forgotten matinees. The back door sways open, spilling a long shadow across the cracked pavement. Inside, the air is clotted with the smell of blood and the echoes of dying screams. The main screen throbs with a vicious, crimson light, stretching jagged shadows across the walls. A grotesque, infantile demon flutters through the chaos. Half-buried in wreckage on the floor lies Lilly Bainbridge. Her dark curls halo a face rigid with fear, eyes wide—part analytical, part animal—as she trembles, hiding from the thing that is hunting her friends.