#profjudas

We met him behind the school today. We weren’t supposed to be there. But curiosity is a cruel master, and the whispers of those before us were too enticing to ignore.

A lake sat before us, impossibly dark, impossibly still. The mist curled around our ankles like living hands.

Then, he spoke.

A roll call.

One by one, names were uttered in a voice that did not belong to this world. And one by one, they answered.

One second, they stood beside us. The next, the lake swallowed them whole.

No screams. No ripples. Just… gone.

I didn’t answer.

Silence was our only salvation.