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How long has it been here

Looking through the portal

Waiting for it to weaken

So it could slip into the shadows

And lurk there in silence

I could feel it's presence

I knew something was in the room with me

Something evil

Something deadly

It's here now

It's hiding

Its waiting

It's watching

Ascending from some black abyss

It becomes one with the shadows

I can hear its breath like whispers

I know it’s watching, waiting, craving

Don’t

Sleep

Don’t dare to close my eyes

Don’t

look

The devil’s henchman in the eyes

A feral smell invades the room

The breathes become a hissed summoning

The shadow looms like ghastly predator

Icy talons caress my neck

Horrified

Paralyzed

Aphonic

Dragged into the shadows