The Eyes In The Dark
596 Words
The pale eyes blinked once in the darkness.
Still smiling.
Still watching her.
Lila’s entire body went rigid.
“What… is that?” she whispered.
Nobody answered immediately.
Ethan’s grip on her wrist tightened.
Not painfully.
Protectively.
The mysterious man’s calm expression finally cracked.
Fear.
Real fear.
And somehow, seeing him afraid terrified Lila even more.
“We don’t have time,” he said sharply.
Outside the greenhouse, the pale eyes moved slowly closer.
Too smooth.
Too unnatural.
Like whatever owned them wasn’t fully human.
The terrified girl beside Lila began shaking uncontrollably.
“No no no… it found us…”
Lila looked at her.
“What found us?!”
Ethan stepped in front of her before anyone could answer.
Blocking her view of the darkness outside.
“Don’t look at it,” he said quietly.
That only made her want to look more.
But something in his voice stopped her.
Not control.
Fear.
Ethan Blackwood was afraid.
The greenhouse lights suddenly exploded above them.
Glass rained down.
Lila screamed softly, ducking instinctively.
Darkness swallowed the room again.
Then—
A sound.
Not footsteps.
Not breathing.
Something scratching slowly against the outside walls.
Circling them.
Waiting.
The mysterious man cursed under his breath.
“It shouldn’t be here already.”
Ethan’s eyes remained fixed on the broken entrance.
“You said the campus barriers were active.”
“They were.”
Silence.
Then the man’s face darkened.
“…Someone let it in.”
Lila’s heart pounded violently.
Nothing about this made sense anymore.
Campus barriers?
Let what in?
What kind of place was Kingston Elite University?
The scratching sound stopped.
Suddenly.
Completely.
And somehow that felt worse.
Much worse.
The terrified girl began crying quietly.
“It does that before it attacks.”
Lila’s blood went cold.
Before she could ask another question—
The pale eyes vanished.
Gone.
The darkness outside became empty again.
Ethan’s expression didn’t relax.
If anything, he looked even more alert.
Then slowly…
Very slowly…
He turned toward the ceiling.
Lila frowned.
Why was he looking up—
A loud bang exploded above them.
Something slammed onto the greenhouse roof.
The entire structure shook violently.
Lila gasped.
Another bang.
Closer this time.
The glass ceiling cracked.
A long shadow crawled across it.
Moving unnaturally fast.
The terrified girl screamed.
“It’s inside!”
The ceiling shattered.
Glass exploded downward as a dark figure dropped into the greenhouse.
Lila barely saw it clearly.
Long limbs.
Pale skin.
A twisted smile stretching too wide across its face.
Its glowing eyes locked directly onto her.
And then it whispered—
“Found you.”
Lila’s scream caught in her throat.
The creature lunged.
But before it could touch her—
Ethan moved.
Fast.
Too fast.
He shoved Lila behind him as the creature slammed into him instead.
The impact threw both of them across the greenhouse floor.
The creature hissed violently.
Not human.
Definitely not human.
Lila stared in horror as Ethan grabbed the thing by the throat.
And for the first time—
His eyes changed.
Darkness spread through them unnaturally.
Cold.
Dangerous.
Inhuman.
The creature suddenly froze.
Not from pain.
From recognition.
Then, in a terrified whisper, it said:
“…Blackwood.”
Ethan’s voice dropped lower than she had ever heard before.
“You should have stayed away from her.”
The creature smiled again.
Despite Ethan’s grip crushing its throat.
“Too late.”
Then its glowing eyes shifted toward Lila once more.
And it whispered something that made her blood freeze completely.
“She remembers more than you think.”
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