Xeresgate
You head south, into the southern forest. It isn't long before the darkness of the forest has swallowed you completely and the way from which you came in is naught but a speck of light in the distance. Even given the fact that your eyes have long since adjusted as well as they can to the darkness, you cannot help but wish that you had a torch or something useful with you.
The grass or moss (you can't really tell) beneath your feet is at least comforting to walk on. You haven't heard a bird or squirrel or even the slightest of bugs for quite some time now, and it unnerves you.
Suddenly, a stick snaps beneath your foot! It is the first real sound you've heard for so long that it makes you gasp and jump back. When you do so, you hear a rustling through the thick foliage around you, although you are unable to determine its source in the darkness.
"What issss it?" you hear, hissing from the darkness.
"I can't tell, ssssimply," is returned.
You are frozen with fear. Half of you wants to run, the other half doesn't know what would happen if you did (and realizes that there are much faster things in this world than you).
"Doessss it ssssee ussss?"
"I don't think sssso."
"Do you ssssee it with your normal eyessssight?"
You wonder, "Normal eyesight?!?"
"No. I think it'ssss dangeroussss."
"Agreed. Let'ssss kill it."
Well, your ears certainly still work well, so you begin bolting out of the forest, hoping against hope to outrun the danger that these invisible beasts apparently are! You run, feeling them right behind you. One of them manages to slice through the tendon in your calf, sending you sprawling to the ground in severe pain, but as they are instantly upon you, ripping open your chest cavity with their razor sharp claws, you really don't feel it for very long.
The grass or moss (you can't really tell) beneath your feet is at least comforting to walk on. You haven't heard a bird or squirrel or even the slightest of bugs for quite some time now, and it unnerves you.
Suddenly, a stick snaps beneath your foot! It is the first real sound you've heard for so long that it makes you gasp and jump back. When you do so, you hear a rustling through the thick foliage around you, although you are unable to determine its source in the darkness.
"What issss it?" you hear, hissing from the darkness.
"I can't tell, ssssimply," is returned.
You are frozen with fear. Half of you wants to run, the other half doesn't know what would happen if you did (and realizes that there are much faster things in this world than you).
"Doessss it ssssee ussss?"
"I don't think sssso."
"Do you ssssee it with your normal eyessssight?"
You wonder, "Normal eyesight?!?"
"No. I think it'ssss dangeroussss."
"Agreed. Let'ssss kill it."
Well, your ears certainly still work well, so you begin bolting out of the forest, hoping against hope to outrun the danger that these invisible beasts apparently are! You run, feeling them right behind you. One of them manages to slice through the tendon in your calf, sending you sprawling to the ground in severe pain, but as they are instantly upon you, ripping open your chest cavity with their razor sharp claws, you really don't feel it for very long.
