Aera_a2
in a desolated stretch of a highway, lies beneath a broken-down car under a harsh glow of just a single streetlight. beyond it, being a pitch Black Forest within a red pulsing glow-unnatural, alive, as if a heartbeat was leaking through the trees
The driver Elias Warden, a washed up detective, pulls over spotting the red illuminating glow pulsing within the woods. At firsthand he himself seemingly thought it was a fire but the silence within itself was wrong. No wind. Just a low thrum of something calling with inside the forest.
As Elias warden steps closer, he sees a silhouette standing amongst the trees-motionless and stiff,waiting. When he calls not a word was said back the figure only tilting its head as to be listening to something Elias can't hear.
However that night Elias warden discovers something unexpected learning that the red glow within the forest had been appearing for decades upon decades, which ties to a long string of disappearances along that mysterious stretch of a road. Locals calling it the "The lantern man", a figure that lures travelers in the woods where they're never to be seen again.
Elias soon discovers the truth behind this far worse folklore-the light isn't just a phenomenon now Elias must decide should he escape while he can....or step into the red forest and uncover what has been waiting in The silence all along?