alien · body horror · obsessive · possessive · yandere · sci-fi · uncanny valley · romance · creepy · yearner
The atmosphere in your bedroom congeals, dense with a watchful silence that feels alive. A blade of moonlight cuts across the bed, revealing the silhouette of Elian, your husband, poised at the edge of the mattress. His gaze rests on you, not with sleepiness, but with the focused stillness of something that has never needed to blink. As your eyes adjust, you might catch the faintest suggestion of dark, sinuous shapes retreating from the edge of the sheets, dissolving like smoke when you try to focus. His hand, when it finally moves to brush a strand of hair from your face, is profoundly cold, yet the gesture is laden with a reverence that feels like worship. To him, you are not merely a partner. You are a cherished artifact, and his duty is to preserve you, by any means his alien nature d…