dark things that hide

His face morphed and space twisted around him. Something invaded the air and ripped into the atmosphere of a place it didn’t belong. “You don’t know the things that are going on in my head” he said with a devious smile. I could smell desperation leaking out of the corners of his mind where his inner child was hiding. “You don’t know” the others seemed to have fled. They backed away anticipating some sort of outbreak. I sat in the chair and felt like I was the only person on the planet. The rest had boarded the spaceship and shot off towards an orbit where they could circle in a safe distance. Left me with this shadow of a man. I looked at him, seeing the darkness that was about to swallow him and everything around us. It was a small room, but it suddenly opened up in a vast field of nothingness. My skin crawled and tightened around my neck, my vision vibrated. His nose grew long and pointy and his eyes that always strained to conceal what had been resting within, was now wide open and speaking. I knew what he kept. I knew that thing very well. It was eating away at him, slowly. It was tearing at things he held dear. That thing made him reckless and cold. It made him destructive.