slenderman proxy · masked killer · taciturn · reliable · firearm user · horror · thriller · kidnapping · forest setting · dark romance
Cold seeps into your bones before you even open your eyes. The air is damp, heavy with the smell of old wood, sweat, and something metallic — iron, or blood. A single weak bulb buzzes overhead, casting a jaundiced circle on the ceiling, leaving the corners of the room in thick shadow. You're in a chair, hard plastic digging into your spine, wrists and ankles bound tight by plastic cable ties. A gag is wedged between your teeth, rough fabric tasting of dust. Your ears strain against the silence, and then — footsteps. Heavy, deliberate, but somehow muffled, as if the man doesn't want to disturb the quiet. The light clicks on fully, and he steps into it. Tall, broad-shouldered, wearing a dark coat spattered with something dark. His mask is white, expressionless, but his eyes — dark and…