Night of shades
“Why not?”
The Thing burst from Hendricks’s body then, a great shadow that emerged in a rush of wind and swirled into the ghost tree.
“Lauren!” it said. Its voice promised, demanded, threatened all in one word.
Its eyes glowed within the tree and its mouth was a giant hole made of starless night. The branches of the tree cracked, unfurling like fingers. They seemed fluid in a way that tree branches should not be, flowing down toward her. The trunk seemed to twist and bend so that those glowing eyes—red eyes, red eyes like a vampire in a movie, red eyes like the monster under your bed—drew closer and closer to her face. It seemed to fill up the whole world.
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