Talk:Game for Three/@comment-7706473-20140718112350

I'll be honest; I'm not sure I got this one. At first I thought it was a reference to the old myth that swans grow hungry in the night and drink the blood of the sick, but that one might be a family myth. Then I figured it's probably a demon, but that doesn't seem particularly frightening to me, due to my own predispostions. The description of the narrator being a creeper are good, but not particularly scary, largely because we know the narrator's intent; and yet they continue to monologue to us without pause to rest.

Not like anyone I know ever monologues... ; P

But even that aside, the descriptions are still very solid, and suitably dramatic to unnerve, if not terrify. They border a bit on to the comically gory-lewd at times, with the narrator taking care to thrust, caress, nibble, and so on. I'm the sort of person that gets a giggle out of stuff like this, but to another reader they could easily be much more frightening. Description-wise, the creature itself reminded most of a night-alp; weighed down on the blood and dreams of it's victim and leaving them groggy but otherwise none the worse for wear, save for a lingering feeling of wrongness. If that's the case, I'll have to say I enjoyed the depiction. It does the ghosts of the old world well to be remembered.