Chapter IV: Scary, Scary Night.
I never knew I could run that fast! Great actress and sportswoman! Wow! I was discovering many talents of my! So, in a speed that would make Prefontaine jealous, I reached the desired mass of tress in hope to find a place to hide in the shadows, because I wisely knew I couldn't run forever. After taking a few turns in different directions amongst the trees in an attempt to lose Medieval Maniac if he was taking the time to pursue me, I stopped panting, eyes wide as saucers, adrenalin pumping through my veins. I scanned the darkness around me, as the night in the forest showed itself in different hues of blue, the huge trees were so imposing, the cold night air filled my lungs and of course a cooing owl made everything much more mysterious and creepy. All was so calm and peaceful and yet inexplicably disturbing.
Absently my eyes got fixed on a point between the trees, immerse in that bluish atmosphere I couldn't unglue my eyes from that space between the trees…but there was nothing there…right? An icy feeling griped my heart and I felt the hair on the back of my neck rise... squinting my eyes I continued looking…and began to realize, real slowly, like my brain as gathering every tiny piece of visual information and putting it together like a really complex puzzle, that there was something in the blue clad darkness, there was an eye…and another and a nose and a mouth…a smirking mouth…a face…that now seemed to be glowing very slightly, a bluish glow that merged so perfectly with the surroundings, even though it was a glow in the dark. It was beautiful, so natural, so harmonious… Suddenly I woke from my reverie to fully realize there was a person, seemingly a man leaning on that tree right in front of me, looking at me! And I knew he had been there all the time, just staring…and smirking. He was so strange…no, that was not it…I couldn't quite find the word…he was eerie, surreal; inhuman... he was glowing, for goodness sake! Have you any idea of how utterly scary it is to find out you have been looking at someone for quite some time without realizing there was indeed a someone there? It is an indescribable feeling… it's like thin air transformed right before your eyes but at the same time you just know there wasn't any real transformation, that this someone was already there the whole time, that you looked but wasn't able to see…that it is not a normal someone and it is looking back at you, calmly and knowingly observing you back. As I am not the bravest soul you will know of…in a moment I got really light headed and….
"Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" I heard my scream echo through the woods and consequently also heard some flapping wings of disturbed birds flying away.
The glowing thing took a step towards me. I took three steps back real quick.
"Don't…don't come any closer!" I said in a shaky voice.
He stopped… and smiled!
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" That smile, the glowing thing smile was also very…glowy…and had a terrible effect on me. Go away, go away, go away! I closed my eyes tight while standing petrified. In a list of things that scare the &# out of me one of the top ten must be ethereal, glowing, eerie appearances in the middle of a dark forest. And seconds passed like centuries…and I was breathing really loudly, because the only thing I could hear was my own respiration. A few more moments passed and I thought it was time to take a peek, maybe my ghostly friend was gone. Gulping I opened my eyes…
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" Oh no! There he was and closer! And still smiling. One scary, smirking son of a &$# he was!
"What? What do you want? What are you smiling at?" I shouted in a still trembling voice, but congratulated my self for the sudden burst of courage.
"Don't be afraid." He said in perfectly comprehensible whisper. Men! Talk about melodious voice…and as bizarre and inhuman and all that as his appearance. That sentence probably was supposed to have a soothing effect, but…
"Baaaaaaack!" Although I was talking to him, it was I who took more three large steps back. And collided with soothing solid, better saying something solid with hands…that held my shoulders.
TBC.