Unknown
Are you frightened, little girl?
Unknown
It’s all right if you are.
Unknown
Fear is a good thing.
Unknown
Will you answer me?
Unknown
Or are we playing a game?
Unknown
Hide and seek, maybe?
Chloe
How do you know my name?
Unknown
I was sent to find you.
Unknown
For that, I needed a name.
Unknown
Something you never want to meet.
Unknown
Probably a smart way to begin.
Unknown
You must be a clever one.
Unknown
And yet, you trust your father.
Unknown
That’s a curious thing.
Unknown
Because he can’t be trusted.
Unknown
He lies and he deceives.
Unknown
And he can be unimaginably cruel.
Chloe
How are you reading our texts?
Unknown
I’m not. But I know your father.
Unknown
I have for a long time.
Unknown
We’ll get to know each other too.
Unknown
I won’t harm you.
Unknown
More importantly…
Unknown
No, MOST importantly…
Unknown
I’ll never lie to you, Chloe.
Unknown
If you catch me in a lie…
Unknown
I have to grant you a wish.
Unknown
Anything you wish.
Unknown
Like a fairy tale.
Chloe
More like a nightmare.
Unknown
And yet it’s really happening.
Chloe
You expect me to believe you?
Unknown
Your mistrust is misplaced.
Unknown
I’ve been. Many times.
Unknown
Hell on earth, that is.
Unknown
Who said I wanted anything?
Chloe
He said you’re here to take me.
Unknown
I’m here to play.
Unknown
Do you like riddles?
Unknown
Too bad. Because I have one.
Unknown
Answer it correctly…
Unknown
And I’ll answer a question of yours.
Chloe
Save it for the police.
Chloe
They’re on their way here.
Unknown
A man receives a call at work…
Unknown
Informing him his wife has been killed.
Unknown
The police ask him to come identify the body.
Unknown
So the man gets in his car…
Unknown
And drives to the crime scene…
Unknown
Where he is arrested for murder.
Chloe
The only way he’d know where she died…
Chloe
Is if he killed her.
Unknown
Let’s hope you get your brains…
Unknown
From your father.
Chloe
What does that mean?
Unknown
Is that your question to me?
Chloe
You never said that.
Chloe
Or are we lying to each other now?
Unknown
Ha! You really are a clever girl.
Chloe
Clever enough to avoid you.
Unknown
I know where you are.
Unknown
Who said I want you?
Chloe
I told you. My dad did.
Chloe
He’s a good man, by the way.
Unknown
He was a good man.
Unknown
Before he became filthy rich.
Unknown
Now he’s one of the most…
Unknown
Deplorable humans alive.
Chloe
No. He’s still good.
Unknown
You see what you want to see.
Chloe
So you’re not human?
Chloe
That’s why you stand in people’s yards…
Chloe
Staring at children through windows?
Chloe
I don’t believe you.
Unknown
The world is filled with monsters.
Unknown
Ghosts and Goblins and Witches.
Unknown
Watchers, Snatchers and Killers.
Chloe
You may look like something…
Chloe
From a Grimm fairy tale.
Chloe
But I think you’re nothing more than a…
Chloe
Deformed lunatic who likes little children.
Unknown
They are rather tasty. The little ones.
Unknown
The world is sick.
Unknown
Society is out of balance.
Unknown
The filthy rich elite…
Unknown
Enslave the poor masses.
Unknown
Parents care more about social status…
Unknown
And bank balances…
Unknown
Than about their children.
Unknown
The world has come unglued again.
Unknown
And it’s always the children who pay.
Unknown
But that is when We rise…
Unknown
And set things right.
Unknown
We are the stuff of nightmares…
Unknown
When humanity becomes sickly…
Unknown
Thousands of times over the millennia…
Unknown
We’ve climbed up…
Unknown
From the dark places of the earth…
Unknown
To make things better.
Chloe
You think snatching little kids….
Chloe
From their families makes things better?
Unknown
That’s how We restore balance to the world.
Unknown
We terrify humans into being good…
Unknown
By removing what they cherish most.
Unknown
The myth that they are in control.
Unknown
The misguided belief…
Unknown
That there are no consequences…
Unknown
That there are no monsters hiding…
Unknown
In your closets and under your beds.
Chloe
Because there aren’t.
Unknown
Where do you think all your grim, dark fairy tales come from?
Chloe
People’s imaginations.
Unknown
You have no imagination.
Unknown
It’s why you chose to hide…
Unknown
In the same place you always hide.
Unknown
In the farthest corner…
Unknown
Of that dank, dark basement…
Unknown
Behind the piano…
Unknown
Beneath a musty old blanket.
Unknown
Are we going to lie to each other now?
Unknown
When I walked past you…
Unknown
I could hear your very heart…
Unknown
Beating like a drum, Chloe.
Chloe
Jesus, what are you?
Unknown
I’m the nasty little thing …
Unknown
That lurks in the shadows.
Unknown
That peeks through children’s windows.
Unknown
I’m the footsteps in the darkness…
Unknown
When you think no one is there.
Unknown
I am the harbinger…
Unknown
Of the coming Age of Darkness.
Chloe
Please… just leave me alone.
Unknown
Answer another riddle and I will.
Chloe
I don’t believe you.
Unknown
You don’t have a choice.
Unknown
I could come down into that basement…
Unknown
And rip your throat out right now.
Unknown
Or you could answer my riddle.
Unknown
Where are the police?
Unknown
Your loving father…
Unknown
Said he called them twenty minutes ago.
Unknown
Where are the police?
Chloe
That’s not a riddle.
Unknown
It is puzzling, no?
Chloe
But I don’t have an answer.
Unknown
Then I’m coming for you now.
Unknown
Why is that good?
Chloe
Because I have a riddle for you.
Unknown
I’m almost on top of you.
Chloe
Then why can’t you hear my heart beating now?
