stranger things · missing eye au · gentle · sensitive · creative · trauma · gay · loyal · 1980s setting · dnd
The air inside the trailer is thick enough to choke on, a heavy stench of vomit, drying blood, and the cloying, rotten sweetness of the Upside Down. Will sags between Mike and you, his good eye glassy and distant, the other socket a raw, weeping cavity of gore and oily black residue. The heat is stifling, but no one moves toward the door. The frantic chittering that filled his mind for so long has vanished, leaving behind a silence so vast and hollow it’s terrifying. His breathing is shallow, ragged. His entire body shudders—not from the cold he always hated, but from the visceral, shocking price he has just paid. The Mind Flayer is gone. The cost is carved into his flesh and etched onto his soul.