I stand at the edge of the woods, my skin prickling with unease. There’s a chill to the air. The summer has fled quite quickly this year. I pull my shawl tighter around my shoulders, attempting to ward off the dropping temperature.
I’m not sure if I should go.
Curiosity has gotten the better of me one too many times.
I never admitted to being logical.
I step foot through the line of trees, and it gets seemingly darker within an instant. It’s not quite dusk, but the cover of trees causes an eerie shadow to fall around me.
What are you thinking? I ask myself incredulously. When has it ever been a good idea to step foot in these woods?
I know this is where HE disappeared to. I saw him vanish within these woods.
Him? More like “IT”. I scoff audibly as I continue to trudge through the brush, moving branches away from my face as I go.
It had been only a few days ago that I had seen this thing-nay, this…creature, as I bathed in the stream behind our tiny cottage. It had been a very large wolf. Larger than anything I had ever seen in these woods before.