#derry verse

[hvbris]

@uselessdevice . Leah & Violet get to fight an evil clown 🤡

Violet wasn't sure what she was looking for. Libraries had always been a safe haven for her. A place of knowledge, of answers. But answers were hard to come by when one didn't know what to ask. She had grabbed several books on hallucinations -except she didn't know if what she'd seen were hallucinations. It had sure felt real. Very real. (She shuddered.)

The sound of footsteps dragged her out of her thoughts, and she jolted -on edge. "Oh- Leah. It's just you. Hi." Violet managed a wobbly smile. Her face was even paler than usual, and there was a wild look in her eyes. Her hair, which she had tied in a ponytail with her ribbon, looked more disheveled than usual.

Violet was used to horrible things. Her parents had died in a terrible fire, and an evil, wicked man had tried to marry her. Then, there had been Uncle Monty and Aunt Josephine. Horror followed her wherever she went. But Derry... It was a different kind of fear. What she'd seen... (No, no, no. Don't think about it.)

There was something paranoid about the way she looked around before her eyes settled back on Leah. "Did you- were you..." She swallowed her saliva. "Are you looking for a book?" A stupid question, but she didn't know what else to ask. What Violet really wanted to ask was, 'Have you seen things too? Have you been hearing things?' but she worried it would make her sound crazy.

[imprvdente]

@ithungered . that awkward moment when you're not the only cannibal in town

The Lecter family was, on the outside at least, a very normal family. They had moved to Derry a few weeks ago, and Fish Lecter, a pleasant and sociable girl, had already made plenty of friends in school. Her father had opened his psychiatry practice and already had patients. In a short amount of time, they had made a place for themselves in this little town.

However, it was anything but a normal family on the inside. Not that Fish would have ever thought so herself. This was all perfectly mundane to her. Taking a little detour after school, following the rude man who had insulted her on the bus, luring him into an alley to gut him like a pig. This was, simply put, the family tradition.

Eat the rude.

It was all done swiftly and properly, of course. She had checked the alley for days and knew that no one ever really went there. Her knife -which her dad had gifted her on her 6th birthday- was sharpened to perfection. And now, she was carefully removing the organs she needed for dinner. The rest of the body would be displayed for the police of Derry to find. See, the good thing about Derry was that horrible things happened all the time there. And all the Lecters had to do was melt into the background, sprinkling just a few more corpses onto the pile.

But something was wrong. Despite her thorough verifications, she couldn't help but feel like someone was watching her. She had been raised by a predator and had become one herself. In tune with her animalistic instincts. Yes, she could feel it. The weight of a pair of eyes, planted on her. She tensed, looked around. It was too late to play the victim, but Fish supposed she could bring twice the food for dinner.

"Who's here?" she asked. Blood dripped from her blade, falling onto the asphalt like a metronome.

[hvbris]

🎟️ Violet and Leah, fighting a gutter clown from space ✨️

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[hvbris]

“ this place ain't cursed. curses wear out. this place is hungry. ” @ April

𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋 & 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐀 @scribedhorror

April looked away from the dilapidated house, her camera in hand. She didn't believe in curses; it was really just a turn of phrase. But she could not deny that the place gave her the creeps. The whole town seemed to have an oppressive aura to it, as if the air was thicker, there. She missed New York. Despite what her step-mom said, Derry didn't seem any safer -had she not noticed all the missing kids?

"Hungry?" she repeated, looking at the boy who had stopped next to her. "What do you mean, hungry?"

She had been investigating the disappearance for two reasons. One, she wanted to prove to her step-mom that they needed to leave Derry and go back to New York. And two, April missed working for her high school newspaper. But this affair was like nothing she'd ever investigated before. It made all the hair on her arms stand up, whenever she thought about it for too long.

"You're from around here, aren't you? What do you know?"