It was a black butterfly, purple and black. He remembered it, vaguely… From a dream? Or maybe it had been on a pack of cards he owned, once. He couldn’t recall, it wasn’t important.
It landed on the back of his hand and he watched as it opened its wings, and a deathskull stared at him, then began to bite into his flesh. He couldn’t move, but it didn’t hurt.
He looked up, there were hundreds of the butterflies. They descended upon him-
He was staring up at a black moon. It grinned like death, like a demon. The butterflies surrounded him, but he walked through them unharmed, treading a black path towards the black moon.
“Happy birthday. ♥” A voice whispered in his ear, sing-songing as he felt himself shoved, his misstep sent him falling into his own shadow, the moon engulfing everything in its demon grin.
Somewhere in the distance a little girl sang about a heart.