* Six months... Six months you've waited. Six months you've anticipated. Six months, you've been taunted and lured back to... that place... that THING that wrenched your consciousness away and threw it back... Those red eyes constantly watching, yet absent. It appeared in every shadow, every nook and cranny of your subconscious, waiting? watching? Planning? Who knows. But it was just one of those nights, laying in anticipation for it to appear. Was it hope? Was it fear? What was it that kept you searching, expecting it to come back? You pushed the thoughts away. No, you couldn't afford to wonder. You had a life after all. A nice life, oh how you reminisce about the dark wood, wavering stars, stretching shado... No, no, no, no.. it can't be... you try to push the thoughts away, but the shadows only continue to stretch, reach for you as the wind chills you to the bone... now frozen, you stand face to face again with... IT... the same empty clearing and glowing crimson eyes followed by that distorted growl of a voice reaches your ear again*