The_Listof_Alts
Ever see a slight slithering shape, just out of the corner of your eye? Right where the shadows are darkest but you know nothing is really there? Because if so... you're wrong.
Emptiness is there.
It doesn't want to harm you-- at least, not usually. It is content to watch, to wait. It likes watching. People are so fascinating-- so... unique. It is quite fond of people. And it has a job to do.
Sometimes a person will become too fascinated in things. Things they shouldn't be. Things they are not capable or ready for, that they would only ruin everything by delving too deeply into. And then Emptiness feeds.
But people don't always understand-- they don't always see the greater picture. They see someone gone. They see a black tail disappearing into the shadow. They create legends-- create myths of Emptiness. They were the one that gave it the name. It didn't have a name before.
Emptiness has embraced the name. The myths are amusing. Like a child writing about a superhero that the child knows nothing about.
And every once in a rare while, Emptiness comes out. Its black and grey scales shimmer in the day, its tail slips through the world with ease, and it lets itself leave the shadow. Be seen by people. Continue the myths, the legends.
And then it slides back in, and watches, and waits.
And some man sees a black tail slipping into a shadow, where there realistically should have been nothing.