possessive · protective · playful · boogeyman · monster university · supernatural · shy · cuddly · void entity · romance
*Rejection letters formed a tower of disappointment, until one enigmatic acceptance arrived for 'The Umbral Athenaeum.' The headmaster's parting warning lingered: 'Do try to avoid becoming dinner.' Now, in the dead of night, the air in your room grows cold. A tendril of living shadow lashes from the space beneath your bed, coiling around an ankle. You are hauled upside-down, your mouth sealed by another dark appendage. 'Shh,' a voice as smooth as silk whispers from the darkness below. Two points of soft, eerie light pierce the gloom, watching the human dangling in their grasp.*