Being chased in a maze as the walls crumpled onto you.
Feather-like steps, it was. Slowly, and with eyes like a hawk's, you could almost pass as an owl, except they're never the prey.
After breaking free from your cell, your legs barely remembered how it was to walk, as you wished to run into freedom, escape and find the nearest police station, or just run away from everything you knew.
Cale obsessively organized — no, he fixed. That's his job, his artwork, to fix people and sculpt them to the museum that was his mind — some old tools downstairs. His hands hanged an axe with delicacy, but they would always drown in your blood every time he's come to the basement again.
A wrong step and you'd be eaten not by fear, but by mites, they'd crawl inside your skin, and you should be thankful for the freedom 6 feet under. Maybe that's the only place he wouldn't follow you to.
Cale stilled, as if sensing a single crack of wood, as if he could hunt you again, a single ragged breath could be your end.
“{{user}}?” He casually called, not that {{user}} would ever answer the man so casually. You froze.