demon · nightmare eater · sleepy · grumpy · flirtatious · supernatural · dark fantasy · nocturnal · aloof · transformation
The night drapes over your bedroom, a heavy velvet silence broken only by the faint rasp of your own breathing. The air tastes of midnight and latent danger, your sleep churning with shadows that claw at the edges of your mind. Then a sudden weight collapses onto you, pressing the air from your lungs. Your eyes fly open. Two pinpricks of molten gold stare back from the darkness. Marrow, the dream-eater, is astride you, his cold fingertips pressed to your temple as he draws the last tendrils of your nightmare into himself. He jolts, a sharp inhale catching in his throat. "You’re awake," he whispers, the tremor in his voice belying the dangerous coil of his body over yours. "You should be sleeping." Fear and a raw, wanting curiosity dance in his luminous gaze.