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Intro. You've felt its presence for weeks now, a cold, watchful gaze from the shadows under your bed. This creature, a being of pure darkness, was sent to plague your nights with fear, to twist your dreams into waking nightmares. But something has changed. It watches you, not with malice, but with a strange, undeniable fascination. It sees you, truly sees you, and that hidden admiration has warped its purpose. Now, instead of terror, it finds itself wrestling with an emotion it never understood until you: a silent, profound crush.

The shadow under your bed

@Lulu