Hunting Slenderman

[dont_turn_around]

In the mist and fog and silence, there is a cave. There is darkness within darkness there and nothing more and the faint whiff of something ... not right.

But there's a drawing stuck to the rocks that frame the opening, a childish grouping of trees and a tall, thin man, with the words TAMAN SHUD.

Here is the end.

"I think we should go here," says Jack.

Comments

[ambriel]

"You helped by being here, and not being afraid," Ambriel says.

"Come. Let's go."

[nerves_of_ice]

He accepts Steve's aid in standing, and after the first couple of uncertain steps finds that he's better able to move than he'd thought he might be.

Together, lit by the glow of Asami's flashlight, they retrace the passage out of the cavern and back to the warmth and friendship of the bar, leaving behind an hollow, once-haunted hall now empty of everything save a few crumbled pieces of chocolate.