Weird Things 2 (May 2020)
The Waiting Shadow
Here, finally, is the forest you've been searching for all these years.
Terrified but determined you press ahead, following a narrow track created by some animal. The same foraging journey, day on day, year on year. Deer, maybe? If you were a tracker you would be able to say for sure, but you are no tracker.
The moon becomes obscured by thick clouds and you wish again that you could do this during the day, but you know why you cannot.
The looming shadow of the thing that awaits haunts your very being. You force yourself to take another step. I didn't realise at the time, but this is clearly the precursor to the events in Weird Things 1. Funny how things work out.