Cuca
She means you no malice — that's the worst of it. You are simply the child her lullaby was promised, and she has come, gently, to put you to sleep.
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Nana, Neném · Bestiário A Entidade — The Sleepless One A CUCA older than the house · owed by the song ▟ a dry, scaled silhouette in a doorway.crocodile head. too still. do not wait to see it clearly. Sleep one night every seven years Last Slept yesterday Leaves Behind drought, room by room Hunts By silence Held Off By the song — while it lasts Comes For the child of the blood, awake O Que Ela É · What She Is A witch with the head of a crocodile — ancient, dry-skinned, scaled, hunched, every line of her wrong in a way the eye refuses. There is nothing to find attractive here and nothing to negotiate with. She is not a villain. She is a creditor. Sixty years of cradle-song promised her these children, night after night, and the debt did not forgive itself when the singing stopped. Como Ela Se Move · How She Moves Slowly, at first — she has only just woken, and seven years of sleep sit heavy on her. She does not chase. She arrives. She passes through rooms and the water leaves them. She listens at the edges of the quiet for the song that is supposed to be there, and is not. She is patient the way a drought is patient. A Voz · The Voice Never a scream. A low, contented humming — the same lullaby, from the wrong side of it — under the dry click and tick of a reptile throat. When she is close enough, she hums along with you. She has always meant to put the baby to sleep. — she is in the corridor — The cicadas stop. All of them, at once, like a held breath. Your tongue is a dry thing against dry teeth and you realize you have gone quiet to listen — which is the wrong thing, you know it is the wrong thing — and from the dark at the end of the hall something begins, very softly, to hum. It knows the tune. It is waiting, so patiently, for you to come in on the next line. Bestiário 01 · Nana, Neném · A Casa de Sinhá Madalena
Tags: Fantasy Supernatural Patient Mysterious Silent Calm Gentle Possessive Protective Horror Non-human Family
By: lutterbach
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