Prompt: Foster, Day 1
- From @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast
- My Pieces
- Content: Haunting, Horror, Death
The same dream accosts her night after night, growing more insistent each time. Kaala stands in front of the manor with windows peering at her like soulless eyes, a large maw of a doorway ready to swallow her up. The man beside her isn’t family; he’s… She can’t remember if she tries to pin the thought down, but she knows he brought her here, that he’ll take care of her. But how can anything grow in a house that seems to block out the very sky? Can Menphina’s light reach her if she enters that monstrosity of a house?
Every time she revisits this scene, she knows she’s been crying. It seems as if she’s spilled a lifetime of tears, yet more threaten to come from sorrow, from fear. This is a place of death, she thinks. Nothing good can be fostered in this oppressive space.
Even as she wills herself to flee, her feet move forward, following the man who will feed her to this house. She will just be another soul the rabbits cannot guide. The bite of this place will be worse than the Hound’s, for she will wander these halls for an eternity after the teeth clamp down. There is no escape.
