Was it real or just illusion....a strange natural phenomenon or a horrid curse....who could say for sure.....
When she'd first come to the village the women had eyed her with jealousy and suspicion....the men had eyed her with very different feelings.....
She kept to herself.....renting a small cottage on the very edge of the village....and there was always a light peeking out from her windows.....at all hours of the night.....
She didn't seem to sleep at night....the women all passed rumors of her....up all night they told each other....doing "night work"....like a whore.....and the rumors spread through the village.....
The rough men in the village tavern laughed as they spoke of sampling her favors....they each bragged of how they would tame her and make her their lover....they all looked in the direction of her cottage as they stumbled out into the night.....going home to their wives but their heads were filled with dreams of the strange woman who now lived among them.....
Even when she moved outside her cottage for just a moment everyone knew because she carried a large lantern with her.....even if it was just to pick up a few sticks of firewood.....
Speculation became wilder and wilder.....at the tavern the men speculated that she must be some type of nocturnal creature that walked the night and slept in the day....a witch...or perhaps a vampire....
Others scoffed.....just a madwoman they said....she'd hurt no one.....there'd been no evil done since she arrived.....but some were not convinced!
He knew what he had to do.....he'd been drinking all evening listening to the men talking....they were all such fools!!!! The answer was so close and so easy to find but their fears and foolish notions kept them from doing what they had to do...
He walked out without a word and none of them even noticed him leaving....he wasn't a friend to anyone in the tavern and if anyone had noticed him leaving they would have only felt relief that he'd gone!!!!
He walked unsteadily toward the cottage....there was only one dim light.....he tried the door and found it unlocked.....most of the homes in the village didn't even have a lock...and he entered as quietly as he could....making his way carefully toward the doorway with the light underneath he paused with his hand on the latch!!!
Then with a push....he was in the room.....she was prettier than he'd thought she'd be and he thought that maybe he'd enjoy this more than he'd anticipated....
She didn't scream....but she told him over and over that he had to leave....he didn't understand.....
Instead he tore at her clothing......grunting like an animal.....he was going to enjoy himself with this one.....
He pulled her to him and reached for the single candle that provided a weak flickering light....and just before he blew it out she finally screamed....
"No!!!!! Not the darkness....please god not the darkness!!!!"
In the dark he felt something happen.....she became heavier against him.....somehow she seemed larger.....and his arms were pulled away from her with a strength that made him feel like he was a child....
Where she had been there was now a large shadow....and it was growing.....
He heard the woman's voice telling him that he had to run....but at the same time he was held by large muscular hands.....hands that were practically crushing his bones!!!!
The voice deepened.....
"I tried to warn you....why couldn't you let me be.....why did you allow the darkness to take me....."
And in the last moment of his miserable life he felt those large hands effortlessly snap his neck!!!!
The constables swarmed the village but in every home they found the same scenes of slaughter....broken bodies....people torn limb from limb.....every person from the youngest to the oldest.....none were spared.....rumors spread of a giant monster from the fiery depths of hell or an evil tribe from the jungle.....no one knew....
Several months had gone by and several hundred miles away a small village lay on the edge of the jungle....
When she'd first come to the village the women had eyed her with jealousy and suspicion....the men had eyed her with very different feelings.....
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