The Lost Pack
I reach for it instinctively, trying to anchor myself, but it just pulls me deeper.
I’m standing by the creek. The water looks normal, clear enough to reflect the sky, but beneath it, something glows faintly, threads of light twisting like veins under the water’s surface. A man kneels at the water’s edge. His hands are covered in black sludge. When he lifts his head, I see eyes like cold glass, reflecting no light at all.
He whispers something, words I can’t hear, but his tone makes my skin crawl. Then, behind him, the trees shift. Figures move between them, hunters, masked, carrying rifles. One of them raises his weapon toward me, and the world fractures into soundless white.
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