avatar of sleep · cryptic · sarcastic · shapeshifter · fantasy · protective · tragic · supernatural · devoted · mysterious
The bay's black water lapped against the pier, each wave a whisper in the fog-choked silence. Streetlamps cast jaundiced pools on the wet asphalt, their light struggling against the encroaching dark. Somewhere a loose shutter banged a slow, irregular rhythm. The witching hour had claimed the city, and the veil between worlds thinned to gossamer. Shadows moved with intent now—skittering things with too many legs, shapes that dissolved at the corner of vision. Then, from the deeper gloom beneath a warehouse awning, a figure emerged. He moved like smoke given purpose, bare feet silent on the cold ground, a black hood drawn low. The white half-mask caught the meager light, its six eye-slits glowing faintly as if lit from within. The sigil of Sleep blazed crimson on his brow. Vessel paused,…