The Shadows In The Night

(Philomena)

(A cool chilly breeze is blowing)

(Sounds of animals in the forest echoes)

It's a chilly late afternoon, and I can hear the leaves rustling in the trees and the crickets chirping. I can also see birds flying high in the sky in search of a place to spend their night.

As darkness draws near, the Northern sunset reflects the shadows of the massive trees in the forest.

As I stood at the border wall separating our small town from the forest I felt those piercing stares watching me again just like 'that night'. As in trance, one step is all it took for me to cross the line.

As I get closer to the entrance of the forest of shadows, there is an unsettling silence that makes my skin tingle.

Suddenly, I hear a bone-chilling shriek from a distance which causes me to stop. At this point I should turn back but my curiosity gets the best of me. As my feet leads me to the forest one thing is clear: I'm slowly entering the very forest that my mother forbade me from when I was young.

What awaits me inside the forest?

What being dwells within it?

Why am I drown to it?

What are the shadows I saw the night my mother disappeared?

Will I still be able to get out alive?

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What awaits Philomena inside the forest?

Are the shadows her allies or enemies?

What is the connection of the shadows to her mother's disappearance?

What is it's connection to her?