𝗕𝗲𝗷𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝘆𝗲𝘀

☾☼𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐎𝐧𝐞 ☾☼

Warning: The following contains depictions of coercion, confinement, blood, gore and more. Proceed with caution

☾ TALES OF THE DAMNED ☾

⋆˖⁺‧₊☽ Des Yeux Qui Suivent ☾₊‧⁺˖⋆

Within the darkest corners of the night,they lurk.

As candles flicker away to their death and lanterns hanging above in a child's room to keep the shadows away begin to burn up,they inch closer.

The shadow you see moving,the monsters an offspring fears lurks under his bed-are they all the figments of the human imagination?

Does truly nothing else exist?

Those shadowy figures lurking within the corner of your eye,dancing like smoke but as soon as you turn-

Nothing.

No worries,only thoughts.

So why does humanity fear the dark so much?

Why-when the lantern burns away and only the dark envelopes you,a fear settles in.

Something is crawling,slithering across the walls and the floor.You can hear it,you know something is there.

But you don't move.

Nothing exists but humanity,there is no threat.

A child runs to his mother screaming and crying,pointing fingers at the 'thing' it saw.

Do not worry for humans are the only creatures that exist.

She sighs and lulls him back to sleep for it was his imagination that ran off to fears children usually have.

Do not fear the dark for nothing lurks.

The door closes as the lantern is lit bright once more by the mother in hopes that the child will fall asleep with the comfort of warm light.

That shadow? It is just the cloth hanging,my dear.

But the child,he knows what his innocent eyes saw. Those scrambling things and those sharp long nails grazing against the window.

Do not fear the dark,for it only gazes back.

Those innocent eyes saw it-

Those bejeweled eyes staring back right through his soul.