It started because we were bored and found one of those weird geo-apps that would take you to the closest leyline where strange things were bound to happen. Apparently. Ours was about two hours away and a fair way into some forest we'd never heard of before.
We got there a few minutes before noon and headed straight to the nearest part of the leyline, intending to walk along it to maximise the chances of something strange occuring. We must have been walking for about twenty odd minutes before we spotted the roof of a house poking out of the ground just off the leyline.
Nobody wanted to go in at first but dares were thrown about and I found myself circling the roof looking for a way in while the others egged me on. I didn't have to look for long - there was just enough of a broken window sticking out of the ground for us to crawl through and into the attic.
Right away everyone felt watched by something barely out of sight. We all turned our phone lights on and shone them everywhere we could, trying to see if we were actually alone. All I saw was darkness trying to climb up through the gaps in the floor but mostly gathered on the other side of the attic.
It moved like fog but more... physical somehow and no matter how close we got to the other side of the attic we couldn't see the wall, only the darkness. One by one we walked backwards, one person looking forwards and one looking back, until we were all outside.
As soon as the last of us was outside the darkness threw itself against the window, trying to spill out and burning when it met the scattered sunlight. It made a sound like someone screaming underwater and I swear that for just a second it had a face - shark-like and furious.
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