I woke to darkness enveloping my every sense. For a moment I forgot where I was, but then I remembered everything. The cabin burning down around me. The explosion that knocked me back a good distance away. My friends lying unconscious or unconscious but alive a couple yards away from where I lay on the ground. The strange man that I never managed to take in my sights, towering over everyone else and staring down at me with his inhumanly red eyes. And finally, the shadowy form looming overhead as he looked down at the forest floor below him...
No! Don't think like that! You can fight! You're too weak to fight!
...or maybe not. Maybe the shadowy figure wasn't a shadow after all. Maybe he was just standing there because I'd lost consciousness. Maybe he had decided to wait for me to recover
