Title: shadow behind shadow
Fandom: Welcome to Night Vale
Rating: G
Length: 100
Content notes: None. No spoilers.
Prompt: The light beneath the light

(Another one-hour drabble. I'm having fun with these!)

Summary: The Mayor does not have keys to the Stone Door. The Mayor is the Stone Door, and all that quivers behind it.


Pamela still has good days.

She wakes one Tuesday with the sky peeling back the ceiling of her room and easing tendrils of starlight straight into her optic nerves. Shadows stretch just to the left of every real thing, quivering wildly in the barrage of x-rays and q-rays that emanate from Radon Canyon. Pamela can feel herself, solid and permeable at once, in the battered boundary between her town and its shadow. Its starveling, greedy, ever-present shadow.

Some days, she can still find her balance on that precipice.

More often now, she is the shadow, howling desperation toward the light.