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Aug. 12th, 2020 01:57 pmThere's something strange making a home in the woods behind the house Matthias built.
At first, Marcus only notices little things. Vegetables gone from the garden that could have very well been blamed on the deer if not for the fact that the prints are far too large to be made by a deer. Sometimes at night he wakes, thinking he's heard a sound, a mournful sort of baying he can't place, but when he listens for it, he hears nothing at all. He always falls asleep once more, assuming he's imagined it. There are broken branches near the property, high up in the trees, higher than a deer or even a bear would reach if it were scratching itself against the trunk.
None of it feels particularly threatening. It's just strange.
On a few of his days off from the Home, Marcus does some reading into any history of Darrow and strange sightings he can find. There are a few reports of something described as being a winged, bipedal horse, which sounds terribly like the Jersey Devil. Marcus knows the Jersey Devil to be nothing but legend, but in Darrow anything is possible.
A few of the sightings call it the Winrow, which to Marcus sounds like a variation of windrow and he can't imagine whoever coined the name of the creature realized what they were doing. A windrow is hardly frightening. But then, maybe the Winrow isn't all that frightening either.
With another two days off before he needs to return to his regular schedule at the Home, Marcus calls up Kat and asks if she'd like to go on a little hunt in the woods behind his house. He's more curious than anything. He wants to know what's been stealing Dan's vegetables.
At first, Marcus only notices little things. Vegetables gone from the garden that could have very well been blamed on the deer if not for the fact that the prints are far too large to be made by a deer. Sometimes at night he wakes, thinking he's heard a sound, a mournful sort of baying he can't place, but when he listens for it, he hears nothing at all. He always falls asleep once more, assuming he's imagined it. There are broken branches near the property, high up in the trees, higher than a deer or even a bear would reach if it were scratching itself against the trunk.
None of it feels particularly threatening. It's just strange.
On a few of his days off from the Home, Marcus does some reading into any history of Darrow and strange sightings he can find. There are a few reports of something described as being a winged, bipedal horse, which sounds terribly like the Jersey Devil. Marcus knows the Jersey Devil to be nothing but legend, but in Darrow anything is possible.
A few of the sightings call it the Winrow, which to Marcus sounds like a variation of windrow and he can't imagine whoever coined the name of the creature realized what they were doing. A windrow is hardly frightening. But then, maybe the Winrow isn't all that frightening either.
With another two days off before he needs to return to his regular schedule at the Home, Marcus calls up Kat and asks if she'd like to go on a little hunt in the woods behind his house. He's more curious than anything. He wants to know what's been stealing Dan's vegetables.
