The effect is abrupt and immediate and terrifying.
They scramble backwards, away, their movements frantic and desperate as they scuttle over the cold of the smooth, slick floor, a hot knot of terror drawn tight in their chest. They shrink away, hands reaching to cover their smooth, pale shape of a face, as if hiding the fearsome thing from their sight would be a sufficient means of evading its eyeless sight.
fou nd you
forever
Their back arches in a shivering, paroxysmal movement that seems to be their non-verbal equivalent of an horrified, inhuman scream.
It tilts its head smoothly to one side as it watches them, its blank visage somehow managing to communicate dismissive indifference. They cannot look at it, but nor can they look away.
Gently, almost lovingly, its arms extend, unspooling toward them, stretching forth with limitless reach, to wrap them in its icy, inescapable grip.
you will be fixed,
it assures them.
just as you were meant to be
comecloser
They do not have time to work their stolen body's jaws and throat to make an appropriate sound of overpowering, paralyzed despair.
They do not have time to do anything.
The inky dark of its body expands and enfolds them with pulsing alacrity, and they shudder into silence.
tw: severe mental distress, minor body horror
They scramble backwards, away, their movements frantic and desperate as they scuttle over the cold of the smooth, slick floor, a hot knot of terror drawn tight in their chest. They shrink away, hands reaching to cover their smooth, pale shape of a face, as if hiding the fearsome thing from their sight would be a sufficient means of evading its eyeless sight.
fou
nd
you
forever
Their back arches in a shivering, paroxysmal movement that seems to be their non-verbal equivalent of an horrified, inhuman scream.
It tilts its head smoothly to one side as it watches them, its blank visage somehow managing to communicate dismissive indifference. They cannot look at it, but nor can they look away.
Gently, almost lovingly, its arms extend, unspooling toward them, stretching forth with limitless reach, to wrap them in its icy, inescapable grip.
fixed,
it assures them.
you were meant to be
comecloser
They do not have time to work their stolen body's jaws and throat to make an appropriate sound of overpowering, paralyzed despair.
They do not have time to do anything.
The inky dark of its body expands and enfolds them with pulsing alacrity, and they shudder into silence.