Despite being a Kamen rider and a downer, Alex had always enjoyed summer. It did not last very long in Wellington Wells, so since coming of Joy, Alex cherished every day of it. At the moment, the sun's rays shone as Alex made her way down the dirt road, She was heading through Maidenholm. Alex made her way down past some old farmer's home and stopped near the cornfield.
Alex then headed through the numerous, still-growing stalks of corn until she came to a large, circular clearing. Alex looked down at the ground, and saw that the stalks in the area had been flattened, yet each one was still perfectly intact; they had not been broken at all. Woz unnoticed by Alex had appeared and noticed the look of curiosity on Alex's face.
"Strange, isn't it? This is just one area, There are other clearings just like this one. This is the biggest circle, but there's smaller ones nearby. C'mon."
" Shit " Alex jumped " Where do you come from?"
The two of them walked further, leaving the main clearing and moving through a small path of more flattened stalks. At the end, it led out into another clearing, not quite as large as the first.
"I've found five of these in total so far. That is not all that's happened, your Majesty. There is...one more thing I have to show you." After that Woz showed her what had happened to the people of Maidenholm
In the space of a single night, all of the people had been slaughtered. Each one was missing their entire set of internal organs; brain, heart, lungs, liver, everything. Even their eyes and tongues were gone. Every person had also been completely drained of blood. However, other than that there wasn't a single scratch anywhere on the carcasses. Someone, or something, had somehow managed to remove all of that without making a single cut. It wasn't until after Woz sliced open a woman's chest that they could even see it was missing its innards. At least the missing organs made it easier for the carcasses to be disposed of, there was less to burn to ashes and bury.
It was starting to get cloudy, and what had been a bright summer day was now shadowy and ominous.