Hey there you are!  I've been waiting for you.  What took you so long.  Hurry and sit down.  I have some things that I want to tell you.  

Did you get lost on your way here?  It's okay.  I get lost myself.  I'm sorry.  I haven't introduced myself yet.  My name. doesn't matter.  

Isn't it a beautiful night?  The night sky is pitch black and the stars are looking down at us. It's times like this that I really appreciate nature and all of its mysteries. the old gods of this land are watching us.  You can feel them gazing upon you sometimes.

We're far enough away from the city that there's no light pollution.  You could scream and nobody would hear it.  Oh don't worry.  We're safe.  We are beyond the haunted woods.

Oh, you haven't heard?  I'll tell you a little about that.  A mile or so away from here.  Down the road.  There's an abandoned town.  Perhaps you've heard of it.  Red Falls.  Actually, I would be surprised if you heard of it.  It isn't exactly tourist friendly.  The town was wiped off the maps.  Removed from text books.  Marked as a no fly zone.

It's truly a town of mystery.  I heard that the residents just up and vanished one day.  Not all of them however.  A few woke up that that day to discover that their neighbors and many others were just gone.  Ben. was one of the remaining.  So was I...

This isn't the first time something like this has happened.  The last time was just over 100 years ago.  The time before that, another 100 or so years.  That land.  It's cursed.

It used to be home of Native Americans.

Local Native American legends say that their patron deity lived in the woods.  It was a shape shifter of sorts an was slumbering.  Until the colonists came. 

My grandma used to say.  "And the river ran red from twilight to twilight."  Whatever that meant.  Most if not all of the lands in Massachusetts have tales.  Perhaps settling here was the curse.

The town history is drenched in blood.  Nobody should have ever settled there.

The government keeps a tight lid on this place.  

The nearby town.  Green River.  Is really a cover for government surveillance.  This whole land is cut off from the rest of the state.  There's really only one way in and out.   What the government interests are.  Are closer to supernatural.

You don't want to get caught trespassing.  Also, you don't want to really get to close to the town or surrounding woods.  

Don't worry.  Like I said.  We're out beyond the deep woods of red falls.  We're safe so long as we don't. venture any closer.

It's time to go.  I can feel something in the air...You know the way out of here.  

Oh my name?  

You can call me Claire.

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