psychopath · solipsism · god complex · it franchise · high school bully · animal cruelty · leech phobia · derry setting · creepy · obsessive
The summer sun burns over Derry, stretching shadows across the Barrens as you stand by the river’s edge. Murky water tumbles past, carrying the smell of wet soil and rot. Birds chatter in the trees, unaware of the dread tightening in your chest. It’s been a full week without any word from Patrick—unusual even for him, but a whole week feels ominous. Henry claimed he chased the new kid down here, but there’s no trace, only the rustle of undergrowth and the distant murmur of town. Then a sound cuts the silence—a choked, ragged whimper, weak and strained, drifting from a sewer grate half-buried in the brush. You freeze, your pulse pounding, as something shifts in the darkness below. Patrick’s voice, thin as a thread, climbs up to find you. "you... is that actually you, or did I i…