my secret is that in 3rd grade my best friend and i started a religion based around Darkstalker from the wings of fire series (except he had very different abilities and was really more of a vague entity than a dragon). we both had “tokens” we used to communicate with him telepathically (i think i still have mine somewhere? it was one of those glass pebble things) and we would sacrifice blood, skin, hair, etc into the no-longer-functioning tampon dispenser (we didn’t know what it was) in one of the lesser-known bathrooms at school every week. once we took too long coming back to class and the teacher came to check on us and found two small children kneeling on the floor of a dark bathroom praying to a defunct tampon dispenser. anyway we believed darkstalker had sent a message to us saying “get [another uninvolved friend” so we made her sacrifice things too bc we were scared she would die