nightshift · Cinematic Anime Cel

They Let Themselves Out

Anime illustration. An ordinary suburban apartment doorway stands open at night with warm hallway light and coats on hooks visible inside. Dozens of small gaunt shadow-creatures pour out of it in a panicking torrent, scrambling over one another. A man leans calmly against the door frame with his hands in his pockets, not looking at them.

He has not drawn anything. He is standing to one side of the door with his hands in his pockets, waiting for them to finish leaving. They are going because he arrived.

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