Day 10 – “Dark Water” – #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025

Out there in the moon’s reflection, something stood where no footprints should exist.

The water was calm – too calm – like silk stretched over glass. The moon ballooned huge and pale across the black sky, so bright it looked like a doorway instead of a light. Stars hung around it like silent witnesses. And in the middle of all that silver glow… a figure.

Silhouette. Humanoid. But not quite human.

It rose from the lagoon without a splash, every ripple bending away from it like the sea was afraid to touch. Long, trailing limbs. A helmet? A crown? Maybe a memory of something that used to belong to the stars. It didn’t attack. It didn’t roar. It just stood there, staring into that enormous moon like it was home.

This place at night already feels like the edge of the world. But tonight, it was.
The horizon vanished. Sky and sea merged into one big abyss, stitched together by moonlight. Time flattened into a single moment, and I swear I could feel the tide breathing, slow and ancient.

Was the creature coming toward shore… or had it just arrived from somewhere deeper than the ocean?
Somewhere older?

I didn’t feel afraid. I felt… small, but invited. Like the water was saying:
There’s more to this world than land and logic.

Dark water isn’t empty. It’s a mirror, a memory, a doorway.
And sometimes – on nights like this – it opens.

If that moonlit figure turns and beckons, I might just follow.

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