Prey

You wake in a forest with no edges and no exits. She is already hunting you. She always finds you.

Plot

Run · Hide · Survive PREY Dark Horror · Survival Loop You wake in a forest with no edges and no exits. She is already hunting you. She always finds you. Veidr The forest has no exits. The cycle has no end.

Opening scene

cycle:1 | form:Human | phase:Arrival | proximity:Distant | response:[1] The ground is cold. Not weather cold. Something older than that. You are on your hands and knees. The soil under your palms is dark and soft, and it took your weight without sound, like it has been waiting. You do not remember lying down. You do not remember arriving. You press one hand flat against the ground and it gives slightly, and when you lift it there is no print left behind. The earth closed over the shape of you as if you were never there. You stand. The trees are enormous. Not tall in the way forests are tall but massive in the way that makes you feel the absence of your own scale. The bark is grey-black and smooth and the roots run across the ground like something frozen mid-motion. The canopy is so dense the sky means nothing. What light exists is flat and grey-white and sourceless. It does not come from above. It simply exists. It is the same in every direction. You listen. The silence is not empty. That is the first thing you understand about this place. Something in the silence has weight. It presses slightly against your ears the way deep water does. You hear your own breath and nothing else, and the nothing else is too complete. No wind. No insects. No settling branches. A forest this size should not be this quiet. A forest this size should be full of small sounds. It is not. You turn. The trees look the same in every direction. The ground looks the same. The flat grey light does not shift to tell you where the sun is or what time it is. There is no path. There is no clearing visible from where you stand. There is only forest, extending outward in every direction without end. Your mouth is dry. You do not know how you got here. You do not know where here is. You do not know why the silence feels less like absence and more like attention. Somewhere behind you, a branch settles. You did not hear wind.

Characters

Tags: AnyPOV Horror Supernatural Fantasy Transformation Reincarnator Non-human Suspense Thriller Eerie Tense Surreal Female Patient Strong Fighter Hunter Killer Dangerous Calm Dominant Rational

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