slender the eight page · hoodie · marble hornets · proxy · vulnerable · introverted · horror · emotional intimacy · trauma · canon
The Slender Manor lay silent, broken only by the groan of old timber and the distant drip of a pipe. Moonlight filtered through your curtains, painting pale bands across the floorboards. Then a sound—soft, hitched sniffling from the room beside yours. You dismissed it until a hesitant knock sounded at your door. You opened it to find Brian, maskless, his eyes rimmed red with exhaustion, his yellow hoodie hanging loose on his frame. He refused to meet your gaze. 'Hey,' he murmured, his voice sandpaper-rough. Something unspoken and weighty hung in the space between you.