REI Co-op Studios. There's only one way home. It's down that road, that dark, lonely road through the trees,

but it's not scary. You've walked it a thousand times. You were

walking down it tonight just a moment ago when when you noticed someone else on

the road ahead walking towards you.

Perfectly natural.

You can't see who it is, of course.

We can't even sit our outline clearly.

Just movement up ahead in the dark.

Upright movement that must be a person walking because...

What else could it be?

You decide you'd better say something. You better say hello. It feels very strange to pass so close on this narrow road in the middle of a dark midnight and not say something.

So when they're still a little ways ahead, you do that.

You say hello.

And then you stop, because they stop.

But they don't say anything back.

They don't make a sound.

You can't even see them anymore once they stop moving.

Hello?

You say again, trying to tell yourself that it's probably some friend of yours for pulling a joke.

Hey, come on, who is that?

You say, and take a step forward.

And then they move. Are they running? You see them moving

...