They followed me here. They found me.

I heard their voices after the sun had set. Their whispers sound like shouts now. Their voices scratched the inside my skull. They told me to stop running, to come outside and join them. They said they would show me such things…such wonders…

I couldn’t help myself. Their calls pulled me to the small window in the bathroom, from which I could see the woods behind the motel. I saw three of them standing there at the edge of the trees, darker shadows against the oblivion of the forest behind them. Their eyes burned brighter than the stars overhead. There were more eyes within the woods, more than I’ve ever seen before. All staring at me.

I felt a pull towards the shadows, like all the gravity of the world was yanking...

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