By the time you realised that the tree branches were in fact intertwined antlers, you'd completely overlooked the multitude of eyes that peered around them. Maybe that's how you managed to avoid dying that day but you didn't come out of the woods alone.
It took its sweet time to find you - it had to. Drawing unwanted attention wasn't what it wanted, it just wanted to be forgotten and left to simply exist without so much as a second thought towards it. If you had just walked right passed it then you wouldn't be having this... issue at all.
Issue may be a bit of an understatement for being stalked by an absolute clusterfuck of bones and sinew that might have been a herd of deer. On the bright side they didn't seem to know exactly where you lived, they were just always in the general vicinity of anything you did outside.
On the bus heading to work? They are seen at least five times, same tree but different places.
At work and accidentally glance out of the window? Eyes are met by dozens of identical, blank eyes.
Eating lunch with your parents? Something falls from a nearby tree onto your lap... part of an antler.
It wanted you to panic, to break and head back to the woods where it could quietly and quickly finish you off before sinking its aching roots back into the dirt, a little further away from its former place. Hopefully far enough away to not be bothered again.
Unfortunately for it, you couldn't care less. It may be an ancient creature capable of unspeakable speed and violence but you'd been followed by strange assholes before. At least this one wasn't yelling obscenities and was mostly keeping to itself.
All in all - pretty weird but it could be worse.
It took its sweet time to find you - it had to. Drawing unwanted attention wasn't what it wanted, it just wanted to be forgotten and left to simply exist without so much as a second thought towards it. If you had just walked right passed it then you wouldn't be having this... issue at all.
Issue may be a bit of an understatement for being stalked by an absolute clusterfuck of bones and sinew that might have been a herd of deer. On the bright side they didn't seem to know exactly where you lived, they were just always in the general vicinity of anything you did outside.
On the bus heading to work? They are seen at least five times, same tree but different places.
At work and accidentally glance out of the window? Eyes are met by dozens of identical, blank eyes.
Eating lunch with your parents? Something falls from a nearby tree onto your lap... part of an antler.
It wanted you to panic, to break and head back to the woods where it could quietly and quickly finish you off before sinking its aching roots back into the dirt, a little further away from its former place. Hopefully far enough away to not be bothered again.
Unfortunately for it, you couldn't care less. It may be an ancient creature capable of unspeakable speed and violence but you'd been followed by strange assholes before. At least this one wasn't yelling obscenities and was mostly keeping to itself.
All in all - pretty weird but it could be worse.
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