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teethsie · 1 year

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Somewhere far, far downstairs in the almost-darkness, the soft steps of Teeth's bare feet against the cold ground have come almost entirely to a halt during their back and forth with Nikolai and the anons; with their focus directed mostly towards their communication device, they pay little attention to the fact that another thirteen steps lie behind them, that they have reached another platform of decidedly too many. Then, too abruptly, too much in sync, their foot hits something wet - sticky, rather - and the already small light of their candle flickers, almost threatening to extinguish as if blown on.

Teeth draws back from the sticky something below, more on instinct than out of a belated realization that something has gone terribly wrong with their innocent trip, and pulls their glance away from their half-written message to Frost; the candle's light barely has the time to attempt to stabilize itself as the holder's high, panicked shriek already echoes upwards through the endless stairway.

The candle and the device hit the ground before Teeth can even consider holding onto them, the latter shattering from the fall. Their in their panic loosened scarf that had been wrapped around their shoulders for a bit of additional warmth slips, too, sinks to the platform's ground while Teeth turns to run back upstairs as fast as their legs may carry them.

For a moment, as the artfully woven cotton fabric touches the flame and lights ablaze much like paper would, a blank, mouthless face is illuminated from below, hovering just a few steps off from the sticky red Teeth's feet had found in the dark. Then, the flame flickers towards the stairs leading up, following the wind-like motion of the monster rushing past to start its terrible chase - the light goes out a second later, leaving only darkness and the louder and louder growing, non-human heartbeat to accompany the noise of Teeth's stumbling steps..

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daily-spooky · 10 days

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peacefulandcozy · 5 months

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yourhoneymoongirl · 6 months

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Living in a dark academia novel 🥀✧˖°.

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mothermaggiexx · 2 months

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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” - George Orwell, 1984

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jackxo · 17 days

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𝖲𝗅𝖾𝖾𝗉𝗒 𝗁𝗈𝗎𝗋

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happyheidi · 1 year

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quiet-imps · 8 months

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Sentry of Hallowed Ground

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high-quali-tea · 2 months

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eyesaremosa1cs · 10 months

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teethsie · 10 months

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Teeth hums softly as he wraps the tea cup he had painted for Yam up in a folded sheet of newspaper, carefully making sure that every last bit of the delicate dish and the painted-on lewisias - painted in a warm fuchsia, rather than the traditional blue - is covered and safe for its potential travel through the yam plant. He briefly takes one last look into the cup to make sure the dried ball of flower that would bloom into a beautiful tea flower of lavender and roses once put in water was really there, then he closes the little package entirely and seals it with a long piece of yarn.

His melody, one from his far-away home, reaching an end, he takes a few last steps to the plant still residing in the middle of his room and puts the gift down on the shattered glass case on the last note, seeming satisfied with himself. He gives the plant a careful little pat, then steps away and back to his shrines to continue the tidying he had briefly begun the previous day already.

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daily-spooky · 24 days

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