The Werewolf Chronicles
You look around at the others in the room but no one looks up at you. Determined to have a meal and a bed, despite the ravings of this lunatic with a gun in front of you, your feet remain planted on the spot.
"This one's as stubborn as my son" the old man blurts out, "Sit down over there."
His gun is pointed over at an empty chair in the corner. The old man says something to the others in Bulgarian and then he sits down again and mumbles something to himself. Obviously deranged you think.
You sit down and do nothing for an hour or so. You're starting to get hungry now, and while you have a little food in your bag, you're afraid to open it really. You want to ask for food and your afraid to do that too. No one has even looked at you yet except the old man who's been staring at you intensely for the past hour. He's now nodding off asleep with the gun still in his hands. When the old man's head is hung low you try to contact one of these silent mannequin people.
"I don't suppose I could get some food and maybe a bed around here, do you?" you say with a forced half smile to the woman with a baby.
She looks over at the two men playing cards and they all speak together in Bulgarian before one of the men answers.
"You will get some food and a bed if you can pay for it. And stranger, my advice to you is, do your best to try to avoid my uncle." The man looks over at the now dozing old man. "He lost his mind two months ago when his son disappeared. Now some think my cousin......" The man trails off for a second, "has become a walking beast of the night. It will be best for you to eat, go to your room and lock the door till morning. At dawn you should leave this place and never come back. This whole village has had a curse placed upon it and it will be unwise for you to interfere or ask any more questions tonight."
At that the man then resumes his card game and some time later, the women you talked to before, comes out with some food for you. You eat it quickly and then she shows you your room for the night.
"This one's as stubborn as my son" the old man blurts out, "Sit down over there."
His gun is pointed over at an empty chair in the corner. The old man says something to the others in Bulgarian and then he sits down again and mumbles something to himself. Obviously deranged you think.
You sit down and do nothing for an hour or so. You're starting to get hungry now, and while you have a little food in your bag, you're afraid to open it really. You want to ask for food and your afraid to do that too. No one has even looked at you yet except the old man who's been staring at you intensely for the past hour. He's now nodding off asleep with the gun still in his hands. When the old man's head is hung low you try to contact one of these silent mannequin people.
"I don't suppose I could get some food and maybe a bed around here, do you?" you say with a forced half smile to the woman with a baby.
She looks over at the two men playing cards and they all speak together in Bulgarian before one of the men answers.
"You will get some food and a bed if you can pay for it. And stranger, my advice to you is, do your best to try to avoid my uncle." The man looks over at the now dozing old man. "He lost his mind two months ago when his son disappeared. Now some think my cousin......" The man trails off for a second, "has become a walking beast of the night. It will be best for you to eat, go to your room and lock the door till morning. At dawn you should leave this place and never come back. This whole village has had a curse placed upon it and it will be unwise for you to interfere or ask any more questions tonight."
At that the man then resumes his card game and some time later, the women you talked to before, comes out with some food for you. You eat it quickly and then she shows you your room for the night.