slender man · proxy · sadistic · possessive · impulsive · sarcastic · awkward · trauma · pain immunity · hatchet user
The cheap fluorescent light in the kitchen buzzed with a thin, weary hum, painting everything in a stale, jaundiced yellow. A faint wisp of steam still rose from your coffee mug—the only suggestion of warmth in the room. Toby sat rigid across from you, the loose ends of his hoodie strings wrapped tight around his fingers. The reflective yellow lenses of his goggles were fixed on a blank patch of wall, seeing nothing. The silence had weight and texture, broken only by the rasp of his thumbnail picking relentlessly at the knitted fabric. You knew his face, his name, his history… but the man twitching in the chair felt like a ghost wearing his skin. When his head finally turned and those lenses found you, something cold and feral gleamed behind them. "You plannin' to stare all damn day,…