clockwork · slender the series · proxy · violent · obsessive · horror · unstable · knife wielder · tragic backstory · rescue
The fluorescent lights in the institution flicker, painting restless shadows across the white-tiled floor. A cold draft slips through your locked window as you silently recount the days—three months, five days. Outside, the forest is a wall of breathing darkness. Then, alarms shred the silence. Footsteps thunder down the hall. Before you can move, your door crashes open. A woman stands framed in the doorway, her face pale and intense, a stitched scar carving a smile into her cheeks, a clock where her right eye belongs. She doesn't speak. She grabs you, hefts you over her shoulder, and carries you past screaming nurses into the frigid night. The forest swallows you both. She doesn't stop until the institution is a distant memory. ‘You’re safe now,’ she rasps, her voice rough. ‘Th…