Shadow

Shadow

For many months now at Cypress Asylum, we’ve been experiencing many different power outages and weather abnormalities. Patients have been seen with bruises and scars on them when they meet with their psychiatrist. In the past, the patients would seem to listen and respond to their psychiatrist, but for the past months now it is only scars, bruises, and disconnect from the patients. The psychiatrists start to grow concerned for the patients. When they ask the patients where bruises and scars come from they can see it only agitates them more. One of the psychiatrists brings the issue up with the head of the asylum Dr Wodahs. Dr Wodahs acknowledges the issue and informs the psychiatrist that he will launch a full investigation into the matter.

Again over the next few weeks, as the weather gets worse, the psychiatrist Dr Laura who brought the matter to the head of the asylum is getting extremely worried about this. As Dr Laura continues to meet with her patients she now has to go to them because they refuse to go to her and she notices signs of them not sleeping for days. Their rooms are all shuffled up, beds are lying flat against the walls, and sheets are covering up any holes or windows in the rooms. Carvings on the walls saying “Never turn the light on again”. When the good Dr goes to touch one of the patients, she notices under their eyes a maroon shade of red appearing to bleed into their eyes. Then the patient reacts in anger and yells as if they are going into a war! And pushes Dr Laura against the wall. Dr. Laura rushes out of the room and goes to a quiet place to calm herself and try to think about what she just saw. None of it makes any sense she thought to herself, I have never heard of or seen anything like that before and she thinks to herself I have been doing this for 13 years now.

Dr Laura is so concerned about all of this that she goes back to Dr. Wodahs to see if he has discovered anything and tells him what happened. Dr. Wodahs let her know they are still looking into the matter but everything seems on the straight and narrow as of now, I haven’t found anything that would bring about this kind of situation. Dr Wodahs did not have too much of a shocked look on his face when she told him what she experienced, but it was almost a sign of relief. Dr. Wodahs stands in front of the window where the bright sunshine is entering the room and blocks the sun from hitting Dr Laura. Then she feels a small prick on her arm but nothing is there. She is startled and says “ow” and twitches her arm away from whatever just touched her arm.

Dr Laura goes back to her office and tries to make sense of all of this, what happened with the patient and her meeting with Dr Wodahs but nothing, and what was that, that happened to my arm. As she looks at it a small scar starts to appear. She is so worried and scared now, she wants to leave and never come back. It is night time around 9:15 pm now and she starts to walk to her office and sees Dr Wodahs staring at the end of the hall down at her, fear grips her whole body and she can’t move. The patients’ rooms stand between Dr Wodahs and her, the patients start to make a loud moaning noise from their cells. Dr. Wodahs starts to walk towards her, and she is breathing so heavily that she doesn’t know what to do. When the head Dr walks past the first patient the light hits him and casts his shadow on the patient’s room. The patient starts to scream and yell in sheer pain, then he is silenced and all you hear is the body drop.

Dr Wodahs continues to walk towards Dr Laura, he reaches the next patient and again when the light hits him and his shadow hits the patient’s room all you hear is nothing but extreme yelling in pain, then it stops after the Dr walks by and you hear the body drop. As Dr Wodahs gets so much closer to the good Dr she breaks free from her prison of fear and makes a run for her office to get her car keys to get far away from there. As Dr Laura runs away she feels every step she takes in shoes. It shoots fear up to her heart and brain. Dr Wodahs is following close behind her and walks by the last patient next to where she was standing and all she can hear as she makes it to her office is the last and loudest screeching yell in terror and pain, then nothing and that same thud of a body hitting the ground.

Dr Laura is panicking looking around her desk for her key, then Dr Wodahs slowly enters the room. He said “I must apologize for all of this but, as you have realized by now I am normal. I actually am not a Dr. I was a patient here 20 years ago and something happened to me, I don’t know what but my shadow would start to hurt people when it hits them. Back then the psychiatrists and head of the asylum paid it no mind and did not care about helping me at all. So I secretly refined my ability and then took over the asylum and have been running it for many years now. But you can’t tell anyone, I don’t trust that you won’t” as he says that the light grows brighter and his shadow fills the whole room. It starts to throw Dr Laura around the room against one wall after another. Dr Wodahs just giggles and enjoys what he is doing. Dr Laura’s body begins to wrap around itself all you hear is the popping of her bones as she screams in absolute pain. Tears are just flowing from her eyes, and with her breath fading from her body she tries to look at him and ask for mercy. But he says this is your mercy, as he snaps her head right off of her body. Then Dr Wodahs simply walks out and starts humming a joyful tune.