I was walking one night through the forest as if nothing had happened, because the truth was I had a bad day, the train didn't take it on time, and I didn't manage to take lunch either, that added to the fact that I didn't have a dollar in my pocket, that's fine, if I had it, but it was eating or walking 50 kilometers home, which I didn't want to do. With an empty stomach and my mind wandering off to who knows where, I couldn't afford to walk home, unless I wanted to be mugged or kidnapped or attacked by some animal, or worse, scared off by some spirit or otherworldly being that was rumored to be living at night on the way home.
Having decided not to eat anything, the end of my day at work arrived and I was ready to run out to catch the train, I arrived on time at the station, with that dollar I could afford a cigarette and the train ticket that left me just 15 blocks from my house.
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I saw my watch and I realized that it was 15 minutes to the arrival of the train, I ran quickly to the entrance of the station to get a cigarette, there was the old man sitting who was selling among cigarettes, candy and newspapers, I greeted him with my hands as I always did, since that was my routine always, all day every day 365 days of the year, I took my cigarette and I said goodbye to the old man and it seemed that I took a little longer than expected, by the time I got off the train I had the doors closed and was starting.
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With the discomfort of what happened, I looked at my cigarette that was still not half full, gave it a long smoke, and set out from the station and began to walk. There was almost no one outside the station and that old man with the cigarettes was not there either, and as if that wasn't enough, the sky was beginning to cloud, I was hungry and now with a long way to go. I decided to take the long way, since the short way, you know what they say, for the short one something can happen to you, better take the long way that is safer, the "long way" they named it this way because overnight, a strange undergrowth appeared in it that in order to arrive at destination it was necessary to surround it, in that a somewhat tense atmosphere was perceived, that the people who passed by that way felt observed or with some type of "supernatural company".
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I continued my way thinking about the things I should do the next day and betting on getting home safe and sound, since it was already 9 pm, the wind was cold, only the crickets and the crashing of the tree branches could be heard.
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From one moment to another I felt observed, I had been walking for almost an hour and a half and the whole atmosphere changed, I heard steps and voices in the distance, it was as if they were praying, in an instant I stopped to confirm what I was hearing, indeed that was, prayers in a language not very understandable, it seemed ancient Hebrew or from another unknown place, it was very close to what I was hearing, when a deafening scream destroyed my eardrums, holding my head and disoriented I fell to the ground, when I heard the second drowned out scream I could perceive that it was from a girl, when I prepared to get up still dazed by what happened, I felt that they took me by the arms and covered my head with some kind of black hood so that I did not see anything, I fell to the ground again and I fainted.
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When I woke up, it was very hot, my hands and feet were tied, I could not see where I was, I smelled burning wood, old clothes, and the sound of animals.
A voice came up to me, in front of me, and said Welcome to your new home.