Brain Eater

[Last century, mental hospital, monster, slow heat, reasoning, no system] The day twelve-year-old Danny was admitted to Willowbrook Mental Hospital, everyone in the town said he was crazy. He smashed windows in class and screamed that something was calling him from the walls. The symbols he drew unconsciously were all over the edges of the textbook, like ancient symbols! He began to forget his mother's face, his birthday, and his best friend's name. Doctors said it was "early onset schizophrenia" and electroshock therapy could "fix" him. Only three of his friends didn't believe it. They work hard to search for evidence to make adults believe them, the wall with twisted heads, the underground membrane that keeps breathing... The children's eyes were empty, as if something had hollowed them out from within. They hear whispers in the walls, see reflections in mirrors half a beat slower than real people, and smell decay. That thing kept eating. Now, it selected Danny. Are you afraid of being alone?