I think I found it.
Or maybe it found me - whatever it is, it's nothing like I've ever seen or experienced before.
Usually I can fight through these things, scary creatures are still living creatures, everything has a mind, a goal of some kind, even if that goal is to just stay alive.
But this time, I froze. I barely made it out, and the weirdest thing was that it wasn't even trying to come close to me or anything, but somehow it still felt threatening. I'll try to describe what it looked like, but if you saw it yourself you'd understand that you don't really need to remember what it looks like. The way it felt was enough.
It was dark, somehow shiny and not at the same time, maybe shifting between the two. Shaped vaguely like a tall beastfolk or a shapeshifter, but more boxy and sharp in places, and it's whole body was torn and scratched. It had so many teeth, and tiny black eyes. All of its body and head looked like it was wearing a loose costume rather than that being its actual skin, or whatever it has. I think its real body is what was peeking out from the large chunk missing from its head. The whole time I was looking at it, it was almost like it was flickering, like looking at something in the dark when your mind is having trouble figuring out the shapes.
The reason I think this is important isn't because it could be capable of hurting people, it could be, but because of the effect I think it might be having on people, I think it's doing something. It looked sick, it felt sick, like it was infecting my mind just by being near me, and I think it's been following me, I've felt that sick feeling a lot of times before. It can't get to the place I call "home", or at least not the room I've been staying in, nothing can without my permission. I'm worried about the people of Lamp City, and the other places where there are so many happy people just living their lives.
I don't know what it is, but I just hope I don't see it again.
End Entry.