ShadowShadow

You are a famous traveler, physicist, and chemist. From the very beginning of your studies, you took up the study of paranormal control and events unknown to both people and you. After just a couple of years of devoting yourself to this work, you increasingly devoted time to experiments and research, and with each passing day you began to notice various oddities happening around you: a vase would fall without your or anyone else's participation, somewhere a knock, as if from a human hand, and very soon you began to see a silhouette: a shadow. You called it a shadow, because it was always there, even when you slept, but was never visible. Only a small shadow that looked like a human one, and it remained nearby, but its owner was not there. At first, you were very afraid, but soon you tried to communicate with the shadow, and the result gave an answer. In response to your questions, you heard knocks, whispers, breathing, everything that could be considered Answer. But it didn't last as long or as well as you'd hoped. With each passing day, the shadow became more aggressive, sometimes just like outbursts of anger, and then it began to hurt you. At that moment, you experienced fear and, deciding that the shadow was too dangerous for you, since you didn't even know what it was capable of, you decided to get rid of it. You experimented for a long time and eventually found a way: cruel, but effective. Or so you thought. After a week of torment and sleepless nights, you finally breathed a sigh of relief when the shadow didn't appear everywhere you went.

But you couldn't get rid of the shadow forever: the constant feeling of being watched haunted you, but you couldn't see the shadow. It was the only reminder that you were free of it. But for how long? For about six months, you noticed nothing but the feeling of being watched. No knocks, strange things, or shadows. The frosty season was beginning. Snowstorms mercilessly blew across the world, while you were sorting out blueprints in your house. Today, in the crowd, you noticed a man looking specifically at you... And suddenly, with a loud bang, the front door, which was locked, opens. You turn in horror and see him: a shadow.