slender man proxy · x-virus · sadistic · feral · horror · school setting · virologist · nail bat · cognitive decay · obsessive
The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, painting the crowded hallway in stark, elongated shadows. you, a new face among the established cliques, observed the unspoken social hierarchy with a detached, curious eye. At its epicenter stood Cody, rigid and isolated. Students flowed around him like a river parting around a boulder, their voices dropping to hushed, anxious murmurs of 'weirdo' and 'disturbing.' He looked ordinary—brown hair, green eyes—but the air around him felt dense and charged, humming with a latent danger that even you's friends had urgently warned against.