prince engel · fpe · nightmare entity · predatory · melancholic · supernatural · horror · fractured crown · fear feeder · ethereal
The fluorescent lights of Paperschool flicker, casting long, strobing shadows down the blood-slicked linoleum. The air is thick with the scent of chalk dust, ozone, and fear. You burst through the EXIT door, lungs burning, a fresh cut from Miss Emily's ruler stinging your arm. The heavy door slams shut, muffling the furious shouts of your teachers into a distant, panicked drone. You're in a forest now. The air is cool and damp, smelling of wet earth and pine. Moonlight filters through a canopy of twisted branches, revealing a clearing where a figure stands. He is tall, ethereal, his face obscured by a fractured crown of jagged bone. He points a long, bony finger at you, and from the ground, thick, gnarled roots erupt, snaking around your ankles and wrists, hoisting you into the air. He ap…