But things are different here in dreamland, or maybe it's just more willing now to toss obstacles aside directly. Having one certainly doesn't mean it can't have the other, and once Jay looks at it he is not going to turn away again. It arrests his gaze, pins him like an insect as it stands near the corner of the house, barely shorter than the edge of the roof.
One long limb or too many long limbs like thin black branches reach out for him, never leaning down to touch but rather beckoning Jay's body to stretch up to meet it, straining until tendons snap and skin shreds like cloth and blood-stained bones rise to its call like the fingers of a newborn tree reaching for the sun. It's slow and deliberate, but Jay will look into its face the whole time, because this is exactly what he wanted, isn't it? To turn around and look. To submit.
Ordinarily it wouldn't tear him apart. It would let him do that to himself, or make them do it to each other.
tw: body horror, slenderman
But things are different here in dreamland, or maybe it's just more willing now to toss obstacles aside directly. Having one certainly doesn't mean it can't have the other, and once Jay looks at it he is not going to turn away again. It arrests his gaze, pins him like an insect as it stands near the corner of the house, barely shorter than the edge of the roof.
One long limb or too many long limbs like thin black branches reach out for him, never leaning down to touch but rather beckoning Jay's body to stretch up to meet it, straining until tendons snap and skin shreds like cloth and blood-stained bones rise to its call like the fingers of a newborn tree reaching for the sun. It's slow and deliberate, but Jay will look into its face the whole time, because this is exactly what he wanted, isn't it? To turn around and look. To submit.
Ordinarily it wouldn't tear him apart. It would let him do that to himself, or make them do it to each other.
But then, this is just a dream, isn't it?]