The new housing estate had officially been abandoned for five years but everyone in the surrounding area knew it was still very much inhabited. They weren't human in the slightest but they didn't cause much trouble most of the time, at least not enough for anyone to trouble themselves by reporting it.
Not that they would be believed, not in an official capacity anyway. The authorities had all been told to only acknowledge any human presence in the estate and nothing else existed there. Of course this lack of authoritarian presence only made it the perfect place for vanishings to occur.
It wasn't just runaways living with monstrous beings, it was bodies tied up and left for something else to clean up for their own sake, it was unwanted infants placed on decaying doorsteps to be raised among the inhuman or eaten alive depending on the individual.
The estate wasn't on any map or road sign, as far as the rest of the county was aware it didn't exist. Its neighbours made sure to keep it that way, keep the occupants inside their homes and hope they just vanish as the houses continue their gradual decay.
A few town meetings had suggested speeding up the decay by breaking anything and everything they could, by forcing the inhuman inhabitants out and away from them but it was always met with a resounding "where else would they go?" and there was never a good answer for that.
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