(10-09-2025, 01:08 AM)imitator Wrote: After that, we’d peek through the fence instead. Sometimes we saw her walking between the flowers real slow, or just standing still for minutes at a time. Even then, we still couldn’t see her face, and it always gave me this awkward, uneasy feeling I couldn’t explain... like I had to look away. Sometimes we could hear humming coming from her yard, soft and low, and it didn’t sound like it was coming from anywhere...
Then one day, she was just gone. My mom said she must’ve moved away, but I don’t remember anyone coming, or packing, or driving off. Her house just sat there empty. The garden went wild. The vines grew thick, and the flowers withered and turned brown. It looked like no one had touched it in years. She might’ve passed away... dunno.
Sometimes I wonder if she wasn’t even human. Maybe something that looked human but didn’t quite get it right. A shapeshifter, maybe. Or something not from here at all.
So your friends where with you, easy to call one up and say "do you remember that lady?"
She might have been possessed and into 'weird' stuff, it fits.
Was there water on the property? like a well maybe
Thus did he hound them on, and in one body they rushed straight at the wall as he had bidden them, and scaled the battlements with sharp spears in their hands.