🩸 Selene: Chapters 11–20
Genre: Supernatural / Psychological Horror
Tone: Dark, atmospheric, disturbing
Chapter 11 – The Silent Town
It began with silence.
When Selene entered Elgrave Falls, she noticed it immediately: the unnatural quiet, like sound itself had been cut from the air.
No birds. No insects. No footsteps. Not even her own breath.
And the people?
They stared through her. Motionless. Pale. Mouths erased.
No lips. Just smooth skin.
Like clay had covered their faces while they slept.
She touched the window of a house. Inside, a child rocked back and forth, eyes open, blood running from her ears.
On the wall, in shaky red crayon, she had written:
> "HE'S WRITING US OUT."
Selene turned.
The trees were whispering her name.
Chapter 12 – The Ink-Stained Man
She saw him that night.
Tall. Faceless. Covered in black veins that moved like ink in water.
His fingers too long. His shadow twisted.
He didn't walk. He slid.
Reality bent around him like paper soaked in oil.
Selene recognized him—not from memory, but from feeling.
From the dreams that Seraphine used to have.
> "Before me, he was," Seraphine had whispered.
> "He is not death. He is unmaking."
The Ink-Stained Man stopped at the edge of the forest and pointed at her.
She felt her skin pulse—like words were trying to leave her body.
> "Not yet," she growled. "I'm not done remembering."
Chapter 13 – The Forgotten House.
She found it in the woods.
A house that shouldn't exist.
Half-buried, half-rotten, windows like open mouths, doors like wounds.
It was her childhood home.
But wrong.
Inside, the walls were covered in her drawings—childish stick figures with their mouths crossed out.
Photographs of her sister, Sophie, smiling.
Photos of Selene? Torn out. Burned. Scribbled over.
In the living room, her parents sat on the couch. Lifeless. Still.
They turned their heads, and Selene's mother whispered:
> "You were the mistake."
Then they crumbled into ash.
Chapter 14 – The Rewriting
The town began to change.
Signs lost their letters.
Books turned blank.
People's names vanished from their minds. They walked in circles, murmuring "who am I?" until they collapsed.
Selene stood in the town square and screamed her name.
But her voice didn't echo.
Instead, the ground wrote back:
> "YOU DON'T EXIST."
She carved her name into her arm. S E L E N E."
The pain grounded her.
She would not be erased.
Not again.
Chapter 15 – The Choir Below
In the well behind the church, Selene heard a sound.
Not water.
Humming.
She descended into darkness.
At the bottom, she found a cavern—and inside it, dozens of children floating in black ink.
Their mouths stitched shut.
Their eyes gone.
And yet they sang. Low, vibrating hums that made Selene's vision go white.
She screamed, and the children turned in unison.
Behind them stood the Ink-Stained Man.
> "Come closer," he rasped.
But Selene ran.
And the humming followed her.
Chapter 16 – The Memory That Wasn't Hers
She awoke in a bed that wasn't hers.In a life she didn't remember.
Photos of her smiling. Parents hugging her. Sophie calling her "my sweet little sister."
It felt warm.
Real.
But it wasn't.
Selene saw the cracks. The smiles were too perfect. The air tasted like plastic.
This was a lie crafted to trap her.
The Ink-Stained Man was trying to *rewrite her reality.
She screamed and shattered the mirror.
The dream fell apart.
She was back in the house.
And everything smelled like rot.
Chapter 17 – Sophie's Ghost
Selene returned to the cemetery.
She found Sophie's grave.
Except it wasn't there.
It was blank.
A hole where the headstone should be.
But then—a voice behind her.
> "Did you forget me?" Sophie whispered, her mouth sewn shut.
Her ghost was pale and hollow, eyes wide with betrayal.
> "You let him in, Selene. You let him change everything."
> "No," Selene choked. "He changed you. I'm still me."
> "For now," Sophie hissed, before vanishing into smoke.
Chapter 18 – The Ink-Flood
That night, it rained ink.
Black, slow-moving sludge poured from the sky. It burned where it touched skin.
People screamed—those who could.
Buildings melted into language: phrases like "FLESH IS MEMORY" and "DO NOT LOOK UP" appeared on walls before vanishing.
Selene stood in the center of town, drenched, shaking.
And then she heard it.
A laugh.
High. Wrong. Like a child pretending to be a god.
The Ink-Stained Man stepped from the church, wearing her father's face.
> "You wanted to be remembered?" he said.
> "Then burn into them."
Chapter 19 – The One Room That Remained
Selene returned to the orphanage.
Everything was gone. Rotted. Dissolved.
Except one room.
Her old bedroom.
It was untouched.
On the wall: a hand-drawn picture.
A girl holding a knife. A dark shape behind her. Scribbled above it: "He watches us when we lie."
And beneath the bed: a box.
Inside it, her sister's hair.
Selene sobbed. Not from grief. But from clarity.
Seraphine didn't want to destroy the world.
She wanted to erase him.
She had failed.
Selene would not.
Chapter 20 – Fire in the Mouth
Selene stood at the center of Elgrave Falls.
The townspeople circled her, faceless, humming, bleeding ink from their ears.
Above them, the Ink-Stained Man floated like a puppet god.
> "Your story ends here," he growled.
But Selene smiled.
She had written his name. In her own skin. Across her heart. With blood and memory.
She spoke it.
Not to praise him.
But to trap him.
Words are power.
And as she said his name, the world caught fire.
Ink boiled.
Mouths reopened.
Screams returned.
The Ink-Stained Man began to burn.
Not with flame—
But with truth.
Elgrave Falls would never recover.
But it would remember.
Selene disappeared into the smoke.
The final girl.
The broken survivor.
The one story that refused to be erased.