This is an REI co-op studios production.

You stand at your cabin window, staring out into the forest as the last of the twilight

fades.

The trees have turned blue and black, and the final orange glow of day has died behind

the branches.

Now the sky in the west does a disappearing gray.

In this last deep twilight the woods are so beautiful they are like to break your heart,

but in a few minutes, once night truly falls, you know they become another place altogether.

Shadows, impenetrable, shift behind every tree.

Finger-like branches catch your clothes, scratch your face, slide through your hair.

You make so much noise moving through the thick brush that you can never quite be sure

that you hear those other sounds.

Behind you, the quiet snap of a bone-dried twig with the sound that leaves make as something

brushes past them.

When you stop and listen to you, you do hear those sounds, which can't tell where they

come from, whether they're near or far, if they're made by the wind or some small animal

or something larger.

So you start to move again, faster this time, and still faster, with the growing feeling

that something is following you, chasing you, coming closer.

Luckily, you're just imagining all this.

You aren't out in those woods, you're standing safely at your cabin window.

Still, you shudder, because the darkness is almost complete now, and it's almost time

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