And All Things Will End

You force yourself to your feet. Trying to go back to sleep is pointless. Extending your hands, you feel your way through the darkness.

You make it to the door and start to unlatch it. Suddenly, your hands freeze. You feel like something from eons past has cast its gaze upon you, scrutinizing you. It can't understand you, just as you cannot understand it. Both entities are equally alien and would seem nonsensical in thought and design to the other. Then the creature turns its back on this dimension, and the feeling vanishes as quickly as it appeared.

Then you hear skittering from outside, a light chatter bleeding through the wooden walls.

You have 1 choice: