A Woman Moves Into Her Childhood Home – What She Finds Terrifies Her

10. Go On Then

 

The deer looked straight at him. John could barely describe the expression he saw on its face. There was a reptilian intelligence in its eyes, something ancient, something that had been in the woods—his woods—for a long, long time. The connection between man and beast transcended the ordinary; he felt as though the deer held a piece of the forest’s wisdom. “Go on then,” a voice said behind him. “Kill it.”

Startled, John turned to see a tall, enigmatic figure shrouded in shadows. His heart raced as he recognized the voice, a voice that seemed strangely familiar, yet ethereal and out of place in the quiet of the woods. He was faced with a decision that would alter the course of his life, caught between the mysterious and the mundane, the past and the present.