You stop, your body tenses up. You hear something, like a twig cracking, only much louder, echoing all around you. Then silence again. You look around, and nothing. The wind must have just knocked off an old branch from one of the trees, yeah that’s probably it, that must be it.
You decide to press forward, not that you knew where you were going, but moving should be better than just standing around, waiting for nothing to happen.
t's not long before you freeze once more, another noise. Different, this time. Like something scraping against the bark of a tree. Again you look around, the faint moonglow revealing nothing noteworthy.
“Hello?” you call out without thinking much and are met with silence from the woods.
You hasten your footsteps as your mind raced and your skin crawled. Trying to calm yourself, you attempt to keep a steady rhythm of breathing, in-and-out… it’s not working.
No, you can’t shake that horrible feeling. Something is wrong, something is off, and you don’t know what to do.
A loud crash booms around you, so much louder than the noises before. The ground beneath your feet shakes, a cloud of dirt and dust gets kicked up towards you.
That’s when you saw it, towering in front of you. Vaguely humanoid in shape, you couldn’t make out any details.
Then it looked down. Among the darkness of the forest roof were two blindingly bright spots of white light. Overwhelmed by fear like a deer in headlights, you find yourself unable to move a muscle, utter a word or even let out a scream. The colossal black mass begins shifting, lowering itself.
Soon you are met with a giant canine skull dangling some distance ahead. In the holes where the eyes should be were two spheres of otherworldly light that beamed down at you like spotlights. Beyond them was a messy black mane from which sprung massive antlers like sharp trees with no leaves. The gargantuan beast had no lips to speak of, but you felt like it was grinning down at you.
Finally, its jaws parted and out came a sound:
“Hi there!”
A voice boomed out. It was a woman’s voice, upbeat, enthusiastic, friendly even. Not what you expected at all. The surprise even managed to shake you out of your fear induced paralysis.
“Can I eat you?”
It followed up with a question in a similarly jovial tone, only with a bit of curiosity to it.
Your reply was:
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