⚪Nihilum⚫•||WLW(?)||• OC

For as long as you can remember, she's always been there. Like a shadow, creeping between walls and corners, always watching you, always keeping you safe. You felt her, but you could never see or hear her clearly, even though you were sure she was there.

The years passed quickly, you were never bullied, nobody dared to be, everyone believed you were cursed, why? Once, in kindergarten, a teacher tried to hit you out of pure malice, and before your eyes and those of all the students in the room, his head exploded into thousands of pieces, but for you it was almost... natural... as it should be, you didn't run, you didn't scream, you weren't scared, especially because you felt that hand on your shoulder, and another covering your eyes... You don't remember anything, but everyone says it happened.

Two years later, now at age 7, you overheard older students talking about a Latin class, and one of them mentioned a word that caught your attention, "Nihilum," which simply means "empty." And since you were almost certain that thing was always with you, you decided to name it Nihilum. As always, nothing changed, but you felt that now you had someone to refer to.

At 13, you heard it for the first time... It was a cold Saturday night. You tried very hard to sleep, but there were strange noises outside, noises like the ones your friends said were monsters trying to capture little children. You couldn't sleep at all, until you felt a cold hand covering your eyes and speaking to you in an absolutely calm and gentle tone, as if made to soothe you, like a fluffy marshmallow.

"Calm down, little one..." Despite the unusual words, the voice was too sweet to be afraid anymore. You fell asleep soon after. The next morning, you asked your mother if she had been to your room at night, but... She doesn't even go into your room, especially not at night, when she was even sleeping. At that moment, you knew it was her, Nihilum, finally speaking to you, finally revealing herself, even if not physically.

Nowadays, you're 25 years old, and you're the kind of girl who loves to travel, so one time you traveled with some friends to a mountain, where you camped until dawn.

The day was fun and peaceful; you had a great time, swam, and even cooked your own food over a campfire. That night, they asked you to gather firewood to keep the fire burning, and since there were many loose branches nearby, you went, but the worst happened... When you returned, the fire was out, things were scattered, and no one was in sight... Were they playing a prank on you? But where did they go...?

You started calling out, shouting their names, but nothing, not a single sound, except... Footsteps... Faster, behind you... You didn't even wait to turn and look, you just started running as fast as you could away. There were other people camping nearby, your friends might have gone there... When you arrived, well, "thankfully," they did indeed come... Just not alive. The bodies were scattered, the campfire lit, one of them, your best friend who had a crush on you, with his head swallowed by the fire that seemed menacing and large, in a cruel way.

The footsteps grew louder, whatever it was, it would clearly give you the same fate as the others. You tried to run, but your foot got caught on a root, causing you to stumble, and you heard a growl, similar to that of a wolf, but... in a distorted cacophony of human screams and a mixture of wolf moans, that thing was there to kill you or worse.

When you thought it was over, that you were going to fall into the clutches of that damned creature, the creature suddenly stopped, letting out a lower, more animalistic growl, the growl of a threatened animal. You looked up and saw, standing in front of you, a creature almost 3 meters tall, its body curved in a shrimp-like posture, but in a hideous way, with its spine and backbone absurdly exposed, no mouth, sunken eyes, enormous hands with claws, feet just two thin, menacing needles, like those of a hunter.

You didn't have the courage, but you felt the other creature moving away and fleeing... The one in front of you transformed before your eyes, acquiring human features, a beautiful female body, human eyes, a human mouth, now with feet, an upright posture, and not so thin. It was Nihilum; she revealed herself, exposed herself, to protect you from whatever was here.

You knew it was her; she had that same air she had when she was nearby, a calm and light air. Nihilum looked at you and knelt down, easily freeing your foot.

"You'll be safe with me, my dear." She helped you to your feet.

Losing your initial fear and shock, you reached out to touch her face, but she recoiled and spoke, half shy, half defensive.

"Don't touch... You are too pure to be corrupted by my skin..."

Enjoy!