"Ugh", I moaned as I opened my eyes and found myself awoken in a soggy patch of moss, surrounded by a large meadow in the middle of the night. A question arose in my mind, "How did I get here?". There was no obvious answer, though how I got into this place wasn't the most important matter, how to get out was. I wasn't going to escape by remaining completely idle - I was going to have to explore.

The meadow seemed to spread on for miles, stretching from the ground under my feet to the horizon, excluding a single side of which had a steep hill, and just at the peak stood a forest. After quite a while of deep contemplation I decided to go with my instinct and climb the hill - a decision I would later regret.

Despite the hill being exceedingly steep, I made my way to the top within minutes, it had certainly been a speedy ascent, albeit a tiring one. My body was functioning above it's normal rate by far, this certainly was strange. I collapsed at the forest's opening and lay there for a few minutes, just trying to gather my thoughts about what could possibly be happening, however nothing came to mind. I did not think of anything that could possibly help me make sense of the situation, nevertheless there was something that just made the whole situation seem even more ludicrous, the sun didn't seem to be rising at all! It had been hours since I woke up here and this strange land still remained close to complete and utter darkness, the crisp, cloudless, navy sky (that seemed to be engulfing me) had not changed in the slightest since my arrival. I realized that I had been waiting here for too long, so I spurred myself on once again, knowing that I would never succeed on my attempts to find a way into the world that I was familiar with if I didn't move at all, maybe the events of later that day wouldn't gave unfolded as they did, maybe there would have been a positive conclusion to these idiosyncratic, though as I did enter I will never know.

I stepped out of the gloomy, bleak meadow and into the deep, gloomy forest. There was a cognant eerie feel about this place, something almost mystical... definitely not a positive aura emanating from the core of this strange strip of land. Nevertheless I pressed on and kept walking. All of a sudden I heard some sort of laughter in the distance, paired with the rapid sound of light footsteps, perhaps there was something else too, I would guess the sound of leaves rustling. Whatever this was, it was moving quickly, the trio of sounds were moving closer at a remarkable rate, far above the usual human limit. I was starting to get scared now, so I turned around and sped away as fast as my legs could take me, though it seemed that the sounds were coming from that direction too. Unanticipatedly, a fit of dizziness took over me, and I fell flat onto the floor where I lay, my vision fading away. The rest of my senses had been numbed too, aside form my hearing, which intensified. The laughing was excruciatingly loud, and although we were in an open space it seemed to echo through my head, the constant sound of insane laughter just echoing through my head over and over, just pushing my mind to it's limits and beyond them.

Through squinting eyes I saw a pallid, disproportionate face looking down on me. Despite the laughter, there was pure hatred in those two eyes, they were a window to a dimension of pain and suffering. Those eyes, full of anger and despair, were the last things I ever saw.