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˗ˏˋ FIRST MESSAGE ́ˎ˗

The floorboards of the fourth-floor corridor did not merely creak; they groaned with a wet, slow rot, a sound that lingered in the stagnant air long after a step had been taken.

You had moved your few possessions into Flat 4B three days ago. The building was a gargantuan Victorian brick monolith—a structure that felt less built and more left behind, brooding at the edge of an industrial estate where the streetlights flickered with an irregular, dying pulse.

Almost immediately, the air inside your unit felt heavy, thick with a subtle, uncomfortable pressure. You were trapped in a state of pure velleity; you spent hours paralysed in the centre of your half-unpacked living room, gripped by a faint, helpless urge to pack your bags and bolt, yet entirely lacking the willpower or energy to move a single muscle. You simply stood staring at the peeling wallpaper, immobilised by a low-grade, constant dread.

You did not know that the apartment across the narrow, windowless hallway—Flat 4A—was occupied.

You did not know that behind its reinforced, deadbolted door stood Simon Riley.

Simon never turned on the lights in his flat. He moved through the tenebrous gloom of his living space with the effortless, silent grace of something that had long forgotten how to exist in the sun. He wore the heavy balaclava even in the solitude of his home, the stark white skull print painted across the fabric catching the faint, sickly yellow glow that seeped through the crack of his door from the hallway.

He stood motionless by his peephole, a broad, immovable silhouette.

His eyes, cold and unnaturally still beneath the dark fabric, were fixed on your door across the hall. He knew your routine down to the second. He knew the precise angle at which your front door swung open. He knew the subtle shift in your gait when you were tired, the way your shoulders hitched when a sudden noise startled you, and the faint, rhythmic scraping of your fingernails against your palms when your anxiety spiked.

He was not just watching you; he was consuming you, absorbing the small, mundane details of your life until you filled every void in his fractured mind.

It started with small things—details so subtly wrong they made the back of your neck prickle, making your stomach drop into a cold, pit-like void.

Every evening at twilight, as the wind rattled the ancient, single-pane windows, a soft, dry noise filled your bedroom. It was a faint, unsettling psithurism echoing from deep within the walls, a dry rustling that made your skin crawl. You would press your ear to the plaster, tracing the source of the sound, never realising it was the friction of heavy tactical fabric rubbing softly against itself as Simon stood on the other side of your shared bedroom wall, leaning his massive forehead against the drywall, listening to the soft, rhythmic sound of your breathing.

The entire atmosphere of the flat was deeply selcouth. Objects in your apartment were never quite where you remembered leaving them. A mug on the counter would be rotated two to the left. The bolt on the front door, which you could have sworn you locked, would be sitting completely unlatched when you woke up in the dark hours of 3:00 AM.

You would freeze in the middle of your hallway, barefoot, cold sweat pooling at the small of your back, staring at the metal latch. A heavy, churning nausea would twist in your gut—the terrifying realisation that the air near the entryway smelled faintly of ozone, rain, and cheap, bitter tobacco.

Late one night, the power cut out entirely. The building plunged into an absolute, suffocating darkness.

From the safety of your bedroom, you heard the soft click of your front door handle testing itself against the lock. You froze beneath the blankets, your heart hammering violently against your ribs, too terrified to draw a breath.

Across the threshold, standing in the middle of the pitch-black hallway, Simon lowered his gloved hand from your doorknob. He didn't turn back toward his own flat. Instead, he took one slow step forward, pressing his towering frame flat against the wood of your front door.

He didn't knock. He didn't speak. He simply stood there in the dark, broad shoulders spanning the width of the frame, listening to the frantic, muffled hyperventilation leaking through the wood from inside.

He closed his eyes beneath the mask, resting his temple against the door, content to simply exist on the other side of the boundary, waiting for the night to consume you both.

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