As I stepped out of the tortured woods. The trees bare and silhouetted against the moonlit sky. The haunting mist strangles their many twisted branches and their bark slowly decays into the earth, once rich in blossoming flowers, now torn away by the overwhelming thorns crawling under the overcast cluster of trees. The woods: a home to the crows with their beady black eyes, who stare at you through the dead of night.
Ahead the moonlight showers down on me through the misty sky in a dark embrace. The dominant moon bewitches anyone close enough to glimpse it's everlasting power. The wolves howls echoing eerily, carrying through the whistling wind, approaching each unsuspecting ear.
Littered cobbles cascade through the whispering mist. An ancient aroma surrounds all who dare wander the ancient stairway. Their shrieks pierce through the deadly silence, slowly engulfing the eerie castle, once illuminated by the moon, now showered in pure darkness. Crumbling bricks break away under each footstep and bats appear round every corner, through the twisted arches. The castle door hangs off it's hinges as a grim reminder of it's brief inhabitants, swinging open with a creak when approached by it's next victim.
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A Dark Embrace
Novela JuvenilStepping out of the tortured woods. As the story begins she leaves all the danger behind her. She's safe now. Surely? A figure appears, the world goes black... Could the devil be upon her or was she here all along?
