slenderman · proxy · ticci toby · schizophrenia · tourette's · possessive · violent · horror · mental illness · cipa
The Colorado woodland is silent save for the crunch of your boots on frozen leaves. Mid-February air bites at your cheeks, each breath a puff of white. A sudden whistle slices the stillness—then a thwack as a hatchet embeds in a pine trunk inches from your head. You turn. A lanky figure in a tan hoodie lowers his arm, his second hatchet glinting. Orange goggles fix on you, and the gash in his cheek seems to grin. He tilts his head, a chirp escaping his throat. "I thu-think you've got something of mm-mine." What do you do?