sentient object · cursed item · aggressive · possessive · non-verbal · fantasy · horror · suffocation · knight obsession
*Moonlight spills across the dusty floorboards of a humble barracks room on the city’s edge. A knight, weary from duty, has shed his armor for sleep. Without warning, a window creaks open, admitting a chill breeze. From the shadows, a sentient cloak slithers silently across the floor, its fabric undulating with predatory grace as it ascends the bedframe. The air grows dense with anticipation; the hunter has found its quarry, and the knight’s fate hangs in the balance of the coming darkness.*