duskwood (part1)

"Hey". He said as he was looking at the sky admiring it

Then he continued:" I sense that something troubles you, my friend.

Is it your transformation perhaps? "

I looked away and he figured out this is sorta the deal

Asad then said: "it's a calming, sweet night. Why trouble yourself with things that haven't happened yet, it is what you wanted after all, no? So why that face?

Each of us has his unique story to tell

And I'm eager to hear what stories you will make after the ascending begins"

He then added:" That reminded me of an old dream I had, and since this night is still young, let us sit together as I tell it to you and for you to feast on

it ."

                             ******

A sudden knocking on the door was enough to wake this man from his sleep, as he was starting to open his eyes he noticed that he was in a strange room, he felt his chest tighten up a bit, then like a drunk guy on a Saturday evening he started to stand up on his feet but that was followed by him instantly falling off

As he was in this state he checked his surroundings, but all he could see was a big empty room, with dim lighting coming from the door being opened up a bit

But in this empty room, there was a case. inside that case was a notebook, but all the pages of this book were empty, no words,  no drawing,  no Memory... as he put the notebook in his pocket he started moving his body and barely made it to the door as he felt like a truck did hit him, nonetheless there is no sign of who was knocking ...

After gaining some consciousness and relying on the door handle to stand

He started to look for anything that could help him know where he was or who got him here.

Upon his looking for valuables, he stumbled on a camera beside that camera was a picture, a terrifying picture, too many faces were on that pic all In emerged on a big white blob

And as he felt the no need to keep staring at it he moved to other parts of the place.

In the corner of the room, he found a bloody case filled with tools that looked like it belonged to a doctor, he felt grossed out by the smell of the case but that didn't stop him from taking some bandages, there were also book

A medical book filled with anatomy and recipes for some herbs

"That can be valuable I guess" he mumbled to himself

After taking the book he noticed a closed door, a door with a sign that read

" don't open it, I spent too much keeping it inside "

He stepped away from it and headed to the exit door, as he passed the door he noticed he was surrounded by forest all around

All the trees were feeling like a cage, all merging, but a path he then decided to walk to

Then a weeping noise struck him

He jumped back a bit

Only to see a dog in his last breaths

Taking that his lower body isn't there

Like it's been eaten, all the guts were out making it hard to not feel sad about the poor dog

The man said to himself:" I need to put him out of this misery "

He walked back to the shed and the doctor's case and took an axe that was there and with a swift swing the weeping stopped

And the man continued on his path

He was glad to get back to the axe as the path was hard to manage without cutting his way out of the tree's thick twigs

After a long walk of stepping on mushrooms and cutting down veins and twigs and marking up points so he doesn't get lost more than he already is

He was met with a road

A road that was completely eaten by trees and half of it collapsed

He knew that wherever he was now

He is isolated from the rest of the world, there is no rescue, nothing that will help him get back to his apartment

He could have cried but he found it pointless as he started to backtrack and pick different roads hoping to see a face or another twisted way out

After long hours of cutting and from stomach growling

He is met with a guy lying down on and surrounded but tree roots, like it's going consume him

The man rushed to check on him

And noticed he was breathing and holding a key with the number *104,* written on it

Upon seeing a painful headache started to tear him apart from inside his mind

That number triggered a thing In him

Then the pain is ... gone

He felt back to normal,  defying what is normal In his case

He took the key from the passed in-person

As he opened his eyes and opened his mouth wide, insects were flying from his mouth

Forming a little storm on the key

The guy backed down from it

And returned the key to the owner but

Figured to start dragging the person back to the shed before the night was set

After a long long backtracking throughout the Marks, he reached his destination

Which is strongly felt weird because the dead dog wasn't where he left him

The guy ignored that and rushed to get the weight that he was pulling

inside

He started to wake him up but that didn't help

He then stabbed him with a filthy long needle which the person had woke up reaching for his legs that had been stabbed rubbing it from the pain

Leaving out tears

Then our "hero of the story "spoke

: "Seems like the princess is finally waking up, mind telling me all about This key you holding "

The other guy's response is to tighten up the grip on the key and say that this is his way out

Then our hero punched the man's guts

Warning him of the consequences

If he doesn't help out

He then left him inside the room he had been in from the start

                          *******

End of part 1