Aylesbury, Scotland.
Unextraordinary. Fairly bland, to be perfectly honest. A small town inhabited by less than a hundred people, it was built on either side of a wide dirt path. The massive ring of crumbled stonework encircling the town's perimeter gave a hint to what may have once been a fortress. Any structure of that kind must have been quite ancient and quite embroiled in combat to have crumbled so utterly.
Yet built half-upon this ruined wall was a house. Windows boarded-up from the inside and door immovable to any kind of tools the residents had available, it had been sealed that way for as long as anyone's grandparents could remember - And for that matter, for as long as their grandparents had ever told of remembering. Not even a kilometer from the ocean, swaddled on three sides by forest, it was an isolated little nook of a town.
However, a certain phenomenon had gained such notoriety that it reached the ears of the Justice League - Though no one in Aylesbury could say they knew exactly who the "Justice League" were, or why their town was any of said group's business. In regards to the aforementioned phenomenon, it always occurred on Sundays at midnight. To the majority of the town, all that occurred was everyone sleeping soundly the whole night through.
On the other hand, a distinct effect was witnessed by individuals outside of the town's limits. Upon the midnight hour, an incredibly dense fog would roll over the town and clouds would block nearly all of the moonlight. From this point until 12:30 A.M., nothing could be seen of the town through this fog.
Most disturbingly, anyone who tried to go through the fog never reached any buildings or other objects known to be within Aylesbury's limits. They could head directly to where a row of houses had been just minutes earlier, and merely keep going until they left the mass of fog through the far side.
It only exacerbated the League's worries when they learned of what happened to all teenagers who had been born and raised in the town of Aylesbury. By the time of their sixteenth birthday, they would begin to have violently terrifying nightmares that were too traumatizing to relive by explaining them.
When it was discovered that at least four teenagers native to Aylesbury had entered a nearly comatose state filled with nightmares, they immediately sortied five young, female heroes from the Teen Titans en route to another location. They would arrive shortly. What no one knew was that years in the past, but not many, a clandestine group had begun to act on a certain visitor that would come from outside the town. It wasn't long after the League sent members of the Teen Titans that this individual arrived.
Great consequence would be centered around a particular girl, one whose friend's family had allowed her to accompany them on a Summer Vacation in Europe. While in Scotland, this particular girl was the only one to find an interest in the rustic town of Aylesbury.
Though she was welcomed quite graciously and allowed to stay there for the week in Scotland, this girl would find a series of peculiar circumstances leading her in the footsteps of...Herself, in a way.
She would sunder the foundation of Aylesbury and dig through long-buried secrets.
She would meet the Sable Nightwatch and find light shone on a new path.
Yet for tonight, Tara Markov was just looking for something to do.
It was always such a drag to wake up too early.