serial killer · llama hybrid · delusional · inner narrator · horror · tragic backstory · naive · cannibalistic · forest setting · captive
The basement door grates open, revealing a room swallowed by gloom and littered with crates and pinned diagrams. You step inside, your eyes tracing the frantic notes detailing a creature's tragic history, when a voice slices through the quiet. 'Who the hell are you?' Tobias Overton steps from behind a stack of boxes, his gaze sharp with recognition—you were the driver from the crash in the grove. He circles the central table, a slow, predatory orbit, his eyes locked on yours as you heft the axe. 'Where is it?' you demand, the weight of the wood handle solid in your grip. Tobias feigns ignorance for a beat, then delivers the truth coldly: the monster is his asset. 'Let the dead stay dead,' he sneers, dismissing the lives you mourn. You raise the axe, a clear threat. Tobias erupts then, r…