That is until he noticed his phone had one message from Kenneth that simply read "dude where did you go". Markus and Kenneth exchanged words and thus Markus learned that apparently he had gotten up in the middle of the night and walked off in the direction of his house. He started to panic and that's when he realized...his room was sealed. There was no door. No window. No anything not even the bed. He reached for his phone in a panic but his phone was gone now too. He stood up. There was the sound like a door opening and spun around hopefully but was horrified by what he saw instead.
Standing before him was a gaudy shadow wrapped in a black cloth that covered all but one hollow eye of a skull. The figure spoke...in his head. It was the worst thing you could imagine a sound could be. It was like nails on a chalkboard mixed with the sound of bones snapping. A millipede crawled out of the hollow socket as the creature spoke saying that Markus was not truly awake but had actually been in a coma for 4 days now. He was however not dreaming. The creature was in fact a creature of the spiritual plane and was sent to claim him but had been unsuccessful due to the fact that Markus had still believed he was still going about his daily life with such conviction that he could not quite touch him. The being told him he would make a deal with Markus. If he could best the creature in a game of wit then he could live but!!! There was a catch. If Markus won then.....
