Darkness... The light left the window as the sun went down and the moon came too. Then the stars came into the sky around my little house out in the forest. I left the safety of my humble abode and walked into the dangers and magnificence of the night.

I walked for miles in this dark and dreary wood as if looking for something, anything, to bring my heart back into the light. I came across nothing and continued my journey inward towards the center of the elegiac vast of trees. After what seemed like hours, I began to get weary and sat by a lake that had formed long before I had arrived on this planet.

As I rested against a tree, I heard a rustle in the bushes beside me. Out of diffidence, I climbed the tree I had been leaning against to hide from the mysterious person. The man broke through the bush just after i had left my perch against the moss covered tree. He was tall and quite handsome with long, black hair, a red cape, black leather suit, pale skin, and a golden claw on his left arm with a tri-barreled gun attached to his right thigh. I stayed in my dark place in the tree as I watched him walk to the lake. He seemed indignant at first, but soon gave in to sorrow. It was then that I became audacious and slyly climbed down the tree, but not sly enough for the man turned and briefly gazed into my ice blue eyes before he evaporated into the shadows of the trees. It was then that I saw the color of his eyes. They were so abnormal, and yet so beautiful. His eyes were the color of blood, a beautiful crimson red.

I came out of my thoughts then when I heard the cry of a wolf and ran back to my little cottage. Once inside I went straight to my room, not bothering to take off my shoes and laid down on the bed, also not bothering to change, hoping that one day I might see that mysterious man again. Sleep took me then and presented me with dreams of the crimson eyed man.