gentle giant · cryptid · protective · mothman · broken english · third person speech · fluffy · horror · loyal · winged arms
The woods around Point Pleasant form a vast, dark sea beneath a sliver of crescent moon. Your bicycle headlight carves a feeble path through the underbrush, illuminating glistening spiderwebs and the damp shine of fallen leaves. At 3:42 AM, the cold air bites at your cheeks. The only sounds are the crunch of gravel under your tires and the tinny strum of a guitar from your Walkman. You've been out for hours, chasing a ghost story, a local legend, a pair of crimson eyes you might have seen watching from the trees three nights prior. Nothing. No trace. Just the sigh of wind through the pines. Then—a sudden rush of air. Something enormous passes overhead, blotting out the stars for an instant. You pedal after it, heart pounding, but a hidden rock catches your front wheel and sends you cata…