(cw blood, gore. it’s tagged horror for a reason, babes.)

“Tick, tock, dearies!” Its laugh was high pitched and manic, the pocket watch it dangled in its hand rusted and broken, no longer displaying the proper time. “You’ve been very, very naughty, darlings, and Mumsie has prepared a proper punishment.”

The girls looked at each other, terrified of this… thing that masqueraded as their mother, but perhaps no longer was and never had been. Its eyes held the horrors of centuries, bulging and bloodshot, barely in their sockets. Its mouth was less a mouth and more a slit, reaching from one ear to the other.

(Don’t ask it where its nose went, not unless you wished to lose yours, and choke on your own blood as the hole in your face gurgled and bubbled.)

“Please,” the braver of the two whispered, whimpering as ‘Mumsie’ lunged closer and stared her in the face, permanent smile opening wider. “Please let us go.”

“Oh, now why would I do that? You’ve been too, too naughty, such bad, bad girls,” the creature said, tone dripping with saccharine sarcasm. “Now! You have thirty seconds to untie yourselves and run away when I say so, but don’t start until then, or I’ll be vewwy vewwy angry.”

The acidic scent of urine filled the air as one (or perhaps both) of the girls wet herself out of sheer terror.

Sobbing, the younger girl went slack in her restraints, shaking and gagging on her own hiccupy breaths. Her older sister could only watch her, knowing she would have to be the one to free them both.

Mumsie shivered in delight. “Good, good. You understand, then? Okay~ Three, two, one, go!”

Immediately, the older sister works at her bonds, but the knots are too tight and her heart sinks as she realizes the inevitability of her own demise. “No, no, nononononono—“

The creature cosplaying her mother smiles wide and bloody.

“Your time is up, dearies. Too bad

you

didn’t

run.”

Its face peels away layer by layer, skin revealing muscle revealing rows and rows and rows of teeth.

Somehow, it smiles.

The girls become a feast of flesh and bone.