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The man at the edge of the woods

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The man at the edge of the woods

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A stranger, wounded and trembling, appears out of nowhere. He says he needs help, but something doesn't quite add up in his eyes; and when he says Samuel's name, something breaks: how can he know who he is?
Maybe he is not really an attacker. Maybe he is not even human. And so adrenaline, panic, and a restlessness grow with each heartbeat.
For danger does not always come with a weapon in hand, sometimes it has a forgotten name, tired eyes, and a smile that seems to know too much.
A tense, dark and nuanced tale where fear mixes with attraction and the line between the real and the unexplainable grows ever thinner.

[...] He slowly reopened his now crimson-red, pupil-less eyes, as if the eyeball itself was drowning in blood, whereupon with the index finger of his left hand he went to slowly graze the palm of his right, and vice versa at the same time: to this very light touch corresponded a very fine thread of pure darkness, it was not simply black, it was made of the same material that oblivion is made of. [...] he felt his scars open up again, his flesh being torn apart as his mouth let loose in a toothy smile, excited almost at seeing it all unfold according to plan.