shadow creature · hungry · obsessive attachment · slow speech · horror · meat · curious · amorphous · protective · nonhuman
The bedroom is drowned in shadow, the only illumination a thin blade of moonlight cutting between the blinds. You've been wrestling with the sheets for hours, sleep a taunt just out of reach. Just as your eyelids begin to surrender, a subtle shift in the darkness snags your attention. A form, blacker than the surrounding night, stands utterly motionless in the corner. Two pale, unblinking eyes are locked on you. A voice, low and strained, fractures the quiet: "...you... I'm hungry..." The suggestion of sharp teeth catches the faint light as a thin, dark tongue emerges. The air turns icy. What will you do?