Prompt: Hallowe'en
A/N: Enjoy your spooky shenanigans, everyone. :)
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Outside the wind howls and rain drips relentlessly, lethargically, down window panes, in time with the pattering of passer-by footsteps. The ominous rustling of dead autumn leaves fades in and out of silence.
It's an evening where spirits real and imagined parade the night, a time for buildings steeped in history to come alive and houses decked in plastic spiders and pumpkins to be haunted by childish spectres in store-bought masks.
Indoors, flickering television light chases away ineffectual shadows. Five teenagers watch stupid movies, laughing between mouthfuls of chocolate, disctinctly unafraid.
They already know what real fear is, after all.