momolady:

A new demon to add to the collection. And I know, the name is going to be a pun. But this was an actual demon who looked like a cat. So, I ran with it. I really like this one and hope you enjoy it as well!

Ever since you were little there has been something in your room. Something that, at night, reaches out from the shadows to claw at your blankets and touch your hair. You’ve tried sleeping on the sofa or staying in the houses of friends and family and for a time it works. But eventually, you always have to go back to your bed and your room where the long, sharp hands reach out of the shadows to touch you at night. It’s frightening and you worried more than once that one night, the hands were going to stop just touching and grow more vicious. You’ve learned to sleep with your blankets wrapped around you like a cocoon.

   As you grew you learned to ignore the hands and eventually you had convinced yourself they weren’t real. They were just your childish, vivid imagination running wild when your anxiety was piqued. You went about your life and yet you still slept in a cocoon.

   For a time, you left home to travel. An opportunity arose where you could travel with a friend, doing minor work with them along the way. You eagerly jumped at the chance, never looking back. Once you returned home and were unpacking you felt a strange presence in your room. There was nothing that had changed, nothing out of the ordinary. Everything was as you left it yet you felt as if there was something different. As you unload your makeup bag back into your vanity you glance up in the mirror, you see something standing behind you. You jump and turn around but nothing is there. You know you saw something, it was as plain as day. But much like the hands at night you quickly deny it away.

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