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It never wanted her; it never did want her. It took from her twice and it never wanted to take her specifically. It did take her life, it took her world and it let her live, let her go on in her own world. In that own world, she had been left cold, she had been left alone not once but twice. Why did it not want her? Why did it let her live?
Darkness begins to set in, and Terrence still hides. A madman, a lunatic with a chainsaw more or less came out of nowhere looking like something out of a horror movie and it more than appeared that he came with the intent to inflict horror movie like destruction. Maybe this chainsaw person was just having a bad day. Still ...
In here though, there is no day, there is no night, there just is ... what you see. Despite all that is going on, Terrence is sure that for a split second at least, he can once again see Mary. But that split second is just that ... a split second. None of this can be real; in fact, it is all so crazy that it cannot be anything other than real.
Having gone on the run with two fourteen-year-old boys, or rather ran off in the general same direction, Terrence took cover. The sound of the chainsaw has gone, the two fourteen-year-old boys gone too. Their capture and possible murder is an unlikely thing but then again, what does Terrence really know? He did not hear any mutilation occur, that does not mean all the lives of relevance to this situation, are still intact.
The sound of the chainsaw no longer rings out through the woods, Terrence still hides. Out of one kind of danger to run right into what would appear to be another kind of danger. What is being lost on him in this moment is that if time does not exist in this place, then why is a darkness coming? Time does exist but both all at once and from one moment to the next in no specific order.
Sitting in the shadows of the largest tree he has so far seen in this place; Terrence is ready to make another run should such a thing be necessary and such a thing is likely to be necessary right now. To run, however is something he has no time to attempt to do. To his right something is moving along the ground, and it is moving towards him at great speed. Miniature life, thousands of miniature lives coming his way.
Spiders, a multitude of spiders, a trail of small dark spiders are rushing towards him, there is no time to think, no time to run, the spiders are swarming him, climbing up one leg, then the other, rushing all over his torso, rushing all along his arms and hands, soon they completely cover him. One horror has without a doubt now been replaced by another, things all around have got dark, maybe the intentions in this moment are not all so dark.
Thousands of small black spiders completely cover Terrence, and they continue to scurry all around him for about ten seconds before moving off and away from him. A matter of only a few seconds pass until each and every one of those spiders have left his body, soon they are no longer in sight. In a blind panic Terrence checks himself over. No damage has been done as far as he is aware, no bites, no nothing then it hits him.
The spiders, when they surrounded every inch of him, Terrence saw something, he had a vision, a flash of a vision. Did the spiders show him something? Maybe something else wanted to show him something and it came through these insects, insect which are now gone, nowhere to be seen. This vision, it shows him something occurring back up on that horse chestnut trail. Susan Lynch, the daughter of Cecil Lynch is walking alone along this trail and as she is, she looks just like she did when Terrence had visited her.
It was May nineteenth, 1997, when forty-one-year-old Susan accompanied father on a walk along this particular trail, as they talked, as Cecil talked ... he vanished. When Terrence, along with Mary, had talked with Susan as she was the week before Terrence came to be in the park, she had acted in a sure manner that her father was fine.
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FOREST OF THE LOST
ParanormaleNaNoWriMo story for 2017. There is something very strange about a forest like park within a small coastal town.