The shadow grins, crooked and familiar. He lifts the mask. "Oh, this?"
No no no no no--
It takes Jay a moment to realize he's saying it out loud.
The mask is small, nearly the same shape as Tim's. A child's mask. The eyes are ringed in wide, black circles, and there's a simple rectangular mouth drawn over the sculpted one, criss-crossed with lines to form teeth.
It looks the same as the first day he saw it, the day he woke exhausted after a night of spooling through footage from the hotel safe, the day he checked the security footage to find something unthinkable. He tore his room apart trying to find it, but no luck.
"Missed me, Jaybird?" The shadow squeaks in a cartoonish falsetto, running his fingers through the eye-holes to make the mask twitch.
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The shadow grins, crooked and familiar. He lifts the mask. "Oh, this?"
No no no no no--
It takes Jay a moment to realize he's saying it out loud.
The mask is small, nearly the same shape as Tim's. A child's mask. The eyes are ringed in wide, black circles, and there's a simple rectangular mouth drawn over the sculpted one, criss-crossed with lines to form teeth.
It looks the same as the first day he saw it, the day he woke exhausted after a night of spooling through footage from the hotel safe, the day he checked the security footage to find something unthinkable. He tore his room apart trying to find it, but no luck.
"Missed me, Jaybird?" The shadow squeaks in a cartoonish falsetto, running his fingers through the eye-holes to make the mask twitch.