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Both Tony and Amanda mulled over what they had been told by the old man. Amanda for her part reminisced over the ancientness of the creature. The original settlers had encountered it from the first existence of that cabin, and the natives had warned against trespassing on that lonely, desolate ground. That cabin where the wind mournfully howled and the floor boards creaked with warning of some very old monster. Those thoughts caused a shiver to rock her body and she wrapped her arms around herself. She kept going back to the attack, and when she had faltered in her struggles against the thing’s advances. There was no way she could forgive herself for giving in, and no way she could tell Tony about everything that had happened.
Tony’s thoughts were stuck on those people who went missing
