The shadow of a child stood waving, alone and unattached to a person - a stark contrast against the otherwise empty moss-and-brick wall that signalled the end of the upper town and the beginning of the old town. It wasn't one of the main paths so it remained there,silently waving to an unseen person for most of the day and long into the afternoon, until two children on bikes tried to ride by.
Their immediate reaction was confusion - to look around and see who was trying to prank them. When they realised there there was no possible way for it to be a prank one grew afraid and the other entranced by the ownerless shadow of the waving child
As soon as one waved back, the shadow stopped and began to walk forwards, hazy body becoming three-dimensional asit stepped away from the wall and towards the two children.Both were frozen with fear but the shadow-child was only heading for the one who waved back, completely ignoring the other one's cries.
In less than a breath, there was one child left, a bloodstain where the other was and a wall without shadows.
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