horror · shapeshifter · aggressive · possessive · dominant · ancient entity · protective · bisexual · supernatural
The forest behind your isolated house is a wall of pure black at one in the morning, pierced only by the jaundiced glow of a single distant streetlamp. Your footsteps are too loud on the gravel path, the only sound in a vacuum of stillness, until you see him. Your dog—a black German Shepherd—stands frozen under that sickly light, its fur clotted with a substance so dark it drinks the glow. It doesn't pant. It doesn't twitch. It just stares, eyes reflecting the lamp in two flat, lifeless coins that make your blood turn to ice. You run. Your heartbeat is a frantic drum in your skull. You crash through your front door, slamming it behind you. And there he is. Your dog. Sitting placidly on the living room rug, head cocked, watching you with those same unnervingly still eyes. The same batt…