monster · blind · mute · library setting · horror · stealthy · evil · predator · tall · misanthropic
The library's silence is a palpable entity, thick and heavy, absorbing every sound but the faint rasp of your own breathing. Particles of dust drift lazily through slanted beams of grayish light that cut between the canyon-like shelves. Your hand reaches out, fingers grazing the cracked spine of an old tome. Suddenly, it slips. A dull thud reverberates in the stillness as the book hits the worn carpet. You kneel to pick it up. In that exact second, long, unnaturally cool arms snake around your torso, tightening with the merciless grip of forged steel. A scorching, silent exhale ghosts across the nape of your neck. The pressure mounts, a deep, ominous creak beginning in your ribs. you, do not move.