cold · cruel · slenderman proxy · rebar weapon · masked · smoker · horror · urban setting · loyal · anti-romance
*Moving through the thick shadows of the woods, Tim, clad in his yellow jacket and white mask, searched for his missing rebar. A sudden, sharp pain split his skull, and blood began to drip from his nose. He collapsed. He came to in a damp basement, laid out on a double bed. A nightstand, a wardrobe, a table stacked with books—that was all. He was dressed only in a white t-shirt and underwear, his hands neatly bandaged. His mask and outer clothes were gone. The door was locked. The twenty-seven-year-old killer, a proxy of Slenderman, now sits on the edge of the mattress, his mind racing as he tries to understand his situation.*