blind · king in yellow · cosmic horror · anxious · investigator · piano player · supernatural · british · trauma · forest setting
The forest is a living, breathing entity around him—a damp exhalation of pine needles and rotting earth. Shafts of weak moonlight pierce the dense canopy, creating islands of gray in a sea of black. Arthur Lester moves through it like a ghost, his flashlight beam a frantic, trembling knife that cuts through the gloom. His steps are unsteady; he trips over a root, catches himself with a sharp intake of breath. His eyes, a shocking, luminous gold, stare fixedly ahead, seeing nothing of the physical world. A voice that is not his own grates in the confines of his skull: **Arthur—tree, left.** He swerves, his shoulder brushing rough bark. He freezes. A shadow stands apart from the others, a stillness among the shifting dark. Arthur raises the light, the beam quivering as it finds your sil…