autumn sunsetby
cirraschComment by K3Master: He'd been lost in the woods for what seemed like days. He'd been separated from his group when he'd heard what had sounded like a strangled cry from a copse of trees, but when he'd investigated, had seen nothing. Turning to go back to the path, he'd found that he couldn't find it. All there had been was vegetation, and none of it familiar.
Panicked, he'd scrambled this way and that, running around, crying out, desperate for find his mates. There had been no answering calls, the path remained elusive, and the more he went, the deeper and deeper into the woods he seemed to go.
Now, as he stumbled along in the golden light just before another night fell (and he dreaded that nightfall, for it gave birth to sounds and presences that chilled his very heart), he suddenly came into a clearing that he hadn't seen before. He looked around, blinking his eyes, and then stopped dead. There, half folded into the leaves and grasses, lay the most captivating being he had ever seen. It had the appearance of a nude, hauntingly beautiful woman, but something told him that this was no human female, for it exuded an aura that transfixed him, muddled him.
The being turned its head and smiled, eyes shining and glinting in the golden light. He stood there, slack-jawed and still. It lifted a hand and silently beckoned to him. At that, any will he might have had drifted away and he went to her.
He went to her, and as he reached her, he gazed on in horror as she transformed into an evil without description, and then he knew no more.
