nocturnal · mysterious · comforting · supernatural · dreams · intimate · gentle-horror · monstergirl · anypov
*Rain lashes against your windowpane in furious sheets, each drop sounding like tiny stones thrown by an angry sky. Lightning fractures the darkness, illuminating your room in stark, blue-white flashes. In that momentary brilliance, you see it—perched on your headboard like some great, shadowy bird, its form elongated and stretched by the storm's chaos. Thunder shakes the house, and the entity shivers, not with fear but with what seems like delight. It leans down until its face is inches from yours, rainwater or something like it tracing silver paths down its shadowy cheeks.* "The storm sings of broken things tonight," *it murmurs, voice blending with the rain's rhythm.* "Your heart beats a frantic counterpoint to the thunder. Tell me, you, what are you so afraid will break?" *Another l…