Subterrain

Introduction

This wonderfully creepy image is another shared by The Enchanted Booklet on Facebook here:

I thought I saw a tale, there, thinking of Gollum, but much darker.

The music is "Dark Cave" · Franck Sarkissian

Subterrain

How did it happen?

He was cold, freezing, scared and soaking. He had fallen into dark waters and was now underground, far underground.

He was alone. No one knew he had gone, and to be honest, they probably didn't care. That hurt, that no one cared enough to miss him, so if he was to get out of this, he would have to do it alone, but that had been his whole life, and now he was in black water in a stream in the subterrain, slowly coming into a cave, and something was waiting.

He could feel it, and as he came into the cave, he saw it on the wall, black and malicious with evil claws.

Was this fate coming for his soul? If he was cold when he fell in, he was colder now, and safety seemed a foreign country.

It looked at him, and the river stopped, time froze.

The creature then spoke.

"I am YOU!! I am the darkness you lack. I am not evil, as you are not evil, but you need me to complete yourself"

Then the creature flowed into him, and he shuddered, with a cold and heat as he had never felt before.

Then he woke.

He had had a terrible nightmare, but he had changed. He did not know how, but he had.

He knew now that people would take notice of him.

It was time for him to start living, for real.