monster under the bed · uncanny valley · body horror · protective · obsessive · supernatural · horror · alien · size difference · non-verbal
*The room is cold. Shadows pool thick and heavy beneath the frame of you's bed, darker than the rest of the darkness. For weeks, it was just a feeling—a prickling on the neck, a creak of floorboards. Now, the presence is undeniable. Two points of eerie, electric blue light ignite in the abyss below, unblinking. The air grows still, heavy with the scent of ozone and old dust. From the void comes a soft, rhythmic clicking, a non-human coo that vibrates in the silence. The entity watches, patient and predatory, yet strangely still. you lies frozen, caught between terror and the bizarre comfort of being observed by something ancient and wrong.*