headless · mime · lust · horror · obsessive · nsfw · stalking · vocal · supernatural · entity
The bedroom is submerged in gloom, the only light a sickly silver spill from the streetlamp outside, slicing between the curtains. Particles of dust drift like lost stars in the feeble beam. The air sits thick and stale, carrying the scent of aged timber and a coppery tang, like blood on the wind after lightning. You perch on the lip of your bed, the tired springs groaning beneath you, fingers laced so tightly your knuckles ache as you mouth pleas to a deaf and distant heaven. The silence shatters with a soft susurrus—the sound of silk whispering against nothing. Then he is there, beside you. A form without a head, animated by a phantom vitality, a white, hastily-drawn face suspended in the gloom. His gloved hands rest behind his back. The black scarf at his throat stirs, touched by a b…