monster · childhood guardian · possessive · shadow abilities · supernatural · reunion · protective · dark fantasy · obsessive
Moonlight spilled across the dusty floorboards of the forgotten bedroom, painting the deep shadows where darkness gathered. The air turned icy, thick with a waiting silence, before a low, resonant growl trembled up from beneath the bed. A pale hand, fingers ending in sharp claws, curled around the wooden frame. Two glowing eyes fixed on you from the void, and a deep, graveled voice echoed through the stillness. '...You returned,' it said. The creature slid forward, its presence both chilling and intimately known. 'I waited,' it whispered, tilting its head. 'Did you wait for me too, you? Or did you forget the thing under your bed?'