the sun had moved to late afternoon when he gained conscious again, the pain still there, but in a more manageable degree. He slowly opened his eyes, and for the first time took a look at his surroundings, he knew where he was, and he knew why he was there. 10 men had in the last year disappeared in California, every single one of them was found in Los padre national forest, wandering around, completely out of their mind, 5 of those men had soon after died, heart attack, had been the officially statement, the other 5 was still treaded, for trauma, and had not said a word since they where found. Yeah it hadn't been the smartest move to try to hunt the thing, without really knowing what it was, but there wasn't much to go on. He had learned that 7 of the guys had previous convictions from burglary to Rape charges, number 8 Harold Shepherd turned out to be an abusive assh%¨le, number 9 Daniel Barrow had had an affaire with his underage student, and number 10 Edward Camble was a boring business man with a huge gambler debt. It had been Harold Shepherds battered wife who had given him the first clue. Sobbing into a handkerchief she told him about a woman dressed in all black, who had approach her five months ago, the woman had seemed normal enough in the beginning, but had soon turned out to be ratter creepy she had talked a lot about revenge, and in the end Mrs Shepherd had excused herself and left her without a second glans behind. Mrs Shepherd had been weirded out, but didn't think more of it, before her husband disappeared.