GRADED: Shadows and Criminality

[Triceracop]

When I was but a young dinosaur, though many still think me as one I do profess this story to take place when I was much younger, I saw something that could not be explained.

It is one of those events that in the rational light of adulthood seems so trivial, that it could just be the imagination of the young run rampant. But I've always considered that the way it stuck with me made it something more. Perhaps it was just a dream, or a misremembered moment, but I do also wonder if it was something more. Not normal, but paranormal.

In a cold morning one day, entering the main room of my childhood home, I saw a humanoid shadow. It was stealing, and my friends let me be the first to tell you that I am well acquainted with thievery, but this shadow...was stealing shadows. Of various toys and my favored football. Taking them into a bag, one at a time and moving quickly.

And then it noticed me.

I could tell I was being perceived, as one often can. That feeling of eyes seeing you, registering up on you.

In that moment, when it saw me, it ran away. I know not what I saw, but I do know I saw something.

And perhaps that something wasn't prepared to deal with a dinosaur.

[gaucho12]

First the mid afternoon bowel movements, now a humanoid owl that steals shadows. This is gonna get good.