Day 1,785

She had broken every rule her mother ever gave her and in the end it still wasn't enough to save her.

In her defence, he approached her to begin with and she treated him just like anyone else at the bakery.
Don't talk to strangers - especially if they're outsiders.

She saw a cut on his hand and she knew blood that red was probably human, she sold him a bandage.
Don't help them, you don't want things like That in your debt - they'll repay you cruelly.

They kept bumping into each other around town, gradually growing closer and closer.
Don't invite them into your home or they'll never go and you'll not leave alive.

Before long she was spending several days in a row just sitting beside him in gentle silence.
If you say "I love you", they'll take your voice away.

Everything made sense when he invited her for a moonlit walk along the moors.
Don't go out there at night child - the water's been hungry for as long as it's been.

Will-o-wisps flittered about her, forming a path that led away from him.
Follow the little ones, they're all mothers and they'll always lead you back home.

No matter how much she wanted to run, her feet were stuck matching his steady pace.
If you go out too late then they'll snatch your soul straight from your shadow.

There must have been hundreds of them in the water, countless eyes shining in the lantern's dim glow.
The water's all theirs and you'd do well to remember that before you traipsing off for them to drown.