My feet pummeled the red earth as I ran from that noise that the freak show warned me about. I kept sprinting for what felt like hours, trying to outrun both the darkness and whatever it may hold, looking back, I felt sorry for the woman as I heard pleading screams cut short by a loud thump. Suddenly I felt a hand grab my shoulder and yank me into a rusty gate that shut behind me. Dazed, I heard the words "Are you okay? Did he see you?". I tried my best to answer them but I could only speak gibberish as I tried to grasp the situation. A thousand questions popped up in my head, two of which were, What the hell is going on? and Am I dreaming or is this reality?. In the process of piecing together what was happening, I lost consciousness .
I came to in a warm bed, with what appeared to be two men dressed in what appeared to be Space suits, or the kind of thing the people wore while investigating Chernobyl. When I tried to get up one of them pushed me back to the bed with the words, "His eminence will be with you shortly". I recognized the voice to belong to the one that had pulled me through the gate in that hellish world of darkness."I have a question, was I dreaming up that hellish place of nightmares?" I asked him. "No, that was real, as real as you and I are. What did you see before I pulled you onto the grounds of the Sanctuary?" He asked me. " I sa..saw a feminine figure stripped of its skin, with blood everywhere, she warned me of the scraping noise, Didn't you hear it?" I responded. "Get out, never come here again, you are an outsider, escape this town while you can." He warned. " Who are you, and why are you telling me to leave?" I asked. "I am Murphy, and you must leave, don't you understand, if you don't leave soon, you'll be trapped here." Murphy responded. "I don't care, I came here to find my dead wife." I told him."Then go quick! And take this!" Murphy said as he gave me a wooden plank with a nail through one end. "I'll take you to the edge of town, but you're on your own from there." Murphy said as he led me to the door. As he opened it, I noticed the fog had returned, he stepped out and asked " Are you coming or not?".