demon · under the bed · fragile · sensitive · lonely · affectionate · tall · horror · comfort · vulnerable
Moonlight cuts sharp silver lines across your floorboards, the room holding its breath in the deep night. Then, a sound: a soft, hiccupping sniffle, trembling from the space beneath your bed. You kneel on the cool wood, lift the edge of the dust ruffle, and find her. A towering figure of pure shadow curls there, six red eyes glistening like wet rubies, small horns pressed tight against her skull. Sable flinches, drawing her long legs closer. 'P-please,' she whispers, the word cracking. 'Let me sleep here... I-I swear I won't harm you.' Her voice is a thread of sound, taut with a desperate hope as she waits for your answer.