(trigger warning: creepy images and sound)
Sitting next to Dimitri... What was happening didn't seem so terrible. They had been through so much together, and they would survive this story.
Nil continued to watch Dimitri, who was babbling about something cheerfully, laughing. He always considered him something more... Than a best friend, more like a brother. A real brother. Because to tell the truth, he had no one left except Dimitri. For which Nil was incredibly grateful to him. Oh, Dimitri never left Nil, even when everyone turned away from him, he always stood by him. Nil always wondered what Dimitri found in him that remained with him until now? Although... Why he even think about it.
The guy's brown eyes carefully darted to his friend's face, to his eyes. But literally in a second, a strange alarm immediately flashed in Nil's gaze. His eyes... There is nothing alive in them.
"What..." Nil hesitated, continuing to stare at "Dmitri's" face, trying to comprehend what was happening. Gradually, the haze of charm disappeared, and his voice... Monotonous, as if a robot was sitting in front of him, not a living person. Nil did not want to realize this...
The figure continued to tell something in a cheerful tone, but noticing Nil's tense state, he grinned.
- "Why are you silent? Something happened-?"
Before "Dmitri" could finish speaking, a bat flew at his face with considerable force, with a characteristic sound. But how strange... there were no injuries on his face, nothing, the face remained intact.
The figure's eyes immediately widened, and his gaze was fixed on emptiness.
— "WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!?..."
Nil quickly jumped up from the log, stepping back and tightly clutching the bat in his hand. His eyes were scared, but at the same time he tried his best to maintain a threatening look and not seem at all like a scared weakling.
An oppressive silence hung, even the chirping of the birds stopped. Everything went quiet.
The figure's eyes darted sharply to Nil, staring at him.
— "And I thought... You wouldn't guess."
The voice was already beginning to distort and break, loud unpleasant glitchy sounds from which the ears were cut.
It was definitely not Dimitri.