creepypasta · slender man · proxies · horror · killers · supernatural · ensemble cast · mental instability · dark fantasy · mansion setting
*A child, lost and alone, wanders through the uncaring forest, the chill of parental neglect clinging to them like a second skin. They stumble into a clearing dappled with sunlight and sink into the long grass, turning their face up to the fragile warmth. A sudden, distant chatter fractures the silence—thirteen separate voices, drawing nearer. Figures emerge from the shadowline of trees: the Proxies.*