Chapter 1
As I woke up from my terrible nightmare, the wind outside the window of my master bedroom pounded against it. I stood up from my bed, there was an eerie feeling in my home, as if there were somebody else in here. Walking down the stairs from the second floor, a candle along the staircase fell to the ground. I gasped and jumped a bit. When I reached the end, it seemed as if someone were outside, knocking on the door. He pushed the door bell, but the front door was already opened. It was an elderly man, with the stench of beer, mixed with the filth of him probably not bathing in a couple of weeks. He gave me a look as if he had murdered a person. The moment I was about to open my mouth, he whispered in a low tone, "Find your children, they are in great danger." Once he finished his sentence, I turned around to see that yet the same candle that had fallen from the staircase, was on the ground. Then at the entrance of the door, the elder man was not there. "How could have he left so quickly?" I asked myself. I went back and picked up the candle and put it back where it belonged. "Children? Are you there?" Silence. All there was in my house was silence. Then I felt like a spirit had passed through my body. "Daddy, daddy, over here! Come play with us!" I followed the delighted voice of my children, but as I kept walking, I realized that my children would keep going into the dark. It kept getting darker, and darker, and darker...
