Things in the Walls, a Manifestation of Excess Energy
Lying in your bed, you hear something clanging, pushing, and scraping away.
Something's in the walls, or maybe on the walls, clawing at your door, your cieling,
the floor, your mind. Thousands of chittering little voices acting in unison, audible
only as a distortion of sounds already there. Close your eyes tight, crawl under
the covers, and pray you wake up in the morning.
After a while, the scrabbling ends. The clawing is over, and a weight is lifted from
your mind. The Things in the Walls have been here and left. But what were they?
What were they? Well, lets suppose every person, in there everyday life, resonates
with a certain energy. Many people have theories on "the resonance of the spirit"
or something like that, so it doesn't seem THAT infeasible. Alright, so you're going
about your life, resonating away happily, leaving faint twanges of your own personal
spiritual sound wherever you go. Obviously, places you spend alot of time in
would sound ALOT like you, in a spiritual sense. But, if you're coming and going,
leaving your personal sound at different times, and maybe even making completely
different sounds based on your mood, there's going to be interference. Constructive
or destructive, there's going to be bits of noise that are not your own.
In the infinitely large and small reaches of Existance (ooooh, capitals, nifty no?)
there are almost without a doubt, Things that aren't yet real, but would sure like to be.
If, in places where the walls of existance were worn thin by the resonance of a
particular human soul, there was also a bit of resonance that didn't belong to anyone,
one of these Things could claim a sort of existance. Unfortunately (for them, not us)
the only kind of reality they would gain from fragments of spare spiritual sound would
be as chittering little beasts banished to the astral plain. If there was an abundance
of spiritual resonance, a larger Thing could manifest, but given the infinite nature
of the Things, it would be next to impossible for an unclaimed sound to get the big.
Some Thing would leap on the chance for existance, and take up that little bit of reality,
preventing anything too large from coming through.
The onle purpose of one of these Things is to become more real then it already is,
hence the scratching and clawing during more vulnerable times. Should one of the
Things in the Walls get sufficient spiritual resonance to manifest as a physical being,
or even just a bigger Thing, I would start worrying. Luckily, that's next to impossible.
In closing, remember that a harmless madman is just that, harmless. I don't intend to
go around killing people for being "Things." Unless they really are... In fact, I'm
starting to wonder about you...
