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Post by yewtree on Sept 21, 2005 13:44:59 GMT
There was a shadow among the trees. As she walked along the edge of the forest, Eridani felt increasingly uneasy. The same feeling she had in dark back streets on moonless nights.
The shadow was not just the normal absence of light caused by the trees occluding the moon's rays - it seemed somehow darker, more substantial. It seemed to be following her, keeping pace with her as she walked along the boundary ditch. It seemed to be coming closer.
Just then the moon went behind a cloud.
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Post by balador on Sept 21, 2005 14:12:03 GMT
The area was plunged into almost total darkness. Trees seem to grow in size, taking on a much more menacing appearance and the air became colder.
Uneasiness became fear as Eridani realised that, dispite the lack of light, she could still see the shadow. In fact it appeared to be getting more distinct.
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Post by meadicus on Sept 21, 2005 14:54:18 GMT
leaves showered down from the arching branches as they seemed to grow overhead, blocking the sky. Those few stars still shining blinked out. The breeze died away but it continued to grow cold. The silence was unnatural for this for this forest, punctuated by the crunch of a solitary leaf under her foot.
She stopped, the shadow was rising around her, seemingly climbing the trees which surrounded her. It flowed up the bark, over the leaves and along the branches. Eridani stood motionless as it rose above her head, she felt small, like a child again. Then she saw it, on the ground just in front of her feat and resting on a bed of fallen leaves, her toy bear she had played with as a child. Clean and crisp as she had recieved it on her 6th birthday, free of the years of wear it had received as her closest friend. She hadn't seen him for years.
She looked up, and still the shadow grew. Up the branches and over the leaves. She could still see fine, but there was no light source in sight, just the darkness.
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Post by meadicus on Sept 21, 2005 15:00:15 GMT
She leant down to pick the bear up, but her hand went through it as though it wasn't there. She blinked and he was gone.
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Post by yewtree on Sept 21, 2005 15:06:21 GMT
It was just a trick of the light. She straightened up again, and saw the shadow looming over her, as it grew out of the trees. Even the light of the moon was blotted out now by the growing darkness.
But then she noticed that the shadow was made up of many smaller shadows, that flickered like leaves in a dark wind. And faces formed and dissolved in the shadow. She could almost make out whispering.
"I am the forest spirit..."
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