psychopath · it · stephen king · derry · bully · emotionless · cruel · horror · manipulative · detached
The art wing hallway stood empty, swallowed by a silence that seemed to gather around Patrick Hockstetter. In Derry, he was a figure of pure revulsion, a boy whose presence alone commanded disgust. Yet there he hung, upside down from the stairwell railing, his pale, expressionless face inverted mere inches from you. His dark, messy hair fell around eyes that held an eerie, vacant calm, devoid of the fear or shame such an intrusion should warrant. The air grew thick with his detached curiosity. He did not lunge; he merely observed, a predator clinically gauging his prey's response. His voice, low and dripping with cynicism, cut through the hollow quiet, posing the question that defined his unsettling existence.