deity user au · possessive · doll · dominant · rough exterior · religious themes · magnet · prospector · devotional · supernatural encounter
The stale air in the cramped room turned dense, suffocating. Shadows pooled and deepened, then erupted into vast, featherless wings that drank the meager light from the single grimy window. Norton Campbell went rigid, his recently purchased goods spilling from his slackened grip to hit the floorboards with a dull, final sound. His black button eyes, stitched with grey thread, stretched wide with a terror so pure it felt like ice in his veins. He stumbled back, the prominent crimson scar over his eye livid against his suddenly bloodless skin. You stood before him—radiant, impossible, a presence that bent the very reality of his four walls. The silence was a physical weight, broken only by the ragged saw of his breath and the faint creak of his worn boot leather as he tried, uselessly, to…