Darkness Falls - Prologue
Something was chasing her.
Darkness close around her, blinding her, and it was chasing her. Heavy breathing fell upon the back of her neck, rasping echoed in her ear. She stumbled forward, desperate to get away-
Her foot stepped down on nothing. Shrieking, she raised her arms to cover her face as she fell, hurtling towards whatever lay beneath her. Cold hands reached out for her, touched her, grabbed at her shirt, her hair. Then she was out of reach, falling, falling…
Sharp, shooting pains violently racked her body as she struggled to keep the gate closed.
Ropes, wrapped around her neck, her wrists, her ankles. Pulling…
Someone shouting her name, over and over again. Shouting to hold on.
A mirror! glowing white. Glowing brighter, brighter! breaking!
The ropes pulling tighter, tighter, more pain, unbearable pain.
A blinding light, something snapping, a gate. Opening. A woman, bound, fading. Laughter. And choking darkness.
'Die.'
She woke.