There Has Only Ever Been One Monster
There has only ever been one bad man in our world. A million different names and faces, but it's always the same man. Copied and pasted. An ancient echo of evil. It wears the skins of the fallen; dead children. Souls never mourned because their bodies lived on. It's how monsters procreate. They murder and hollow out the vulnerable, and then seed the essence of that 1 man ... into those hollowed out spaces. -The perfect crime. To this very day, not a single county has a law preventing it. He doesn't always succeed. Sometimes the living and beautiful essence of a child survives. But that inner light will flicker for years. Every such child remains vulnerable to any other face of "him" showing up to finish what an older version of him started. So they'll need to find a guardian to help nurture and protect that light from going out. The "him" still prowls; never tiring of the hunt. He must always try to hollow out every child, because even the darkes...