[Lady-Loki]

Many years pass and most citizens forgot the horrors of that dark time when IchigoHollow haunted the once peaceful streets of Elderine. Parents stopped telling their children of the tragic happenings for fear of causing nightmares and insecurity. Children stopped avoiding the house and stopped crossing to the other side as they passed.

Oh, every now and then someone would mention it, but the horrors benefited from so many urban legends being passed around that for the most part the stories were discounted and just another urban legend. All but one child, the beautiful adventurous young Loki. Loki knew there was something about that house. Something sinister. She could never quite put her finger on it, but it was there. Oh, definitely there. She felt its presence every time she flew her hobby horse past that house with no doors. Loki felt it so strongly that she did cross to the other side of the street as she went past it.

She didn’t know what it was or why it was but she felt as if the house was watching her. But how? How can a house watch you? Could it be those shuttered windows? Oh yes, those shuttered windows were watching like a cats slanted eyes. Sitting so still and waiting for its prey. She knew there was no logical explanation but she knew it was. She felt the cold pass through her bones like an arctic wind. Cold. Sharp. Heartless. She felt the hairs on her neck stand up. She felt a sense of foreboding.

But even as she scurried past as fast as her hobby would fly her adventuresome spirit wondered what was actually in that house. That house in Elderine with no doors. But that house had eyes! Shuttered they may look, but they saw. And she knew; she knew as well as she knew Captain Shutain would refuse her the Gold Bug 3 reward, that one day she would know.


(KK – if no one else puts some serious storytelling into it I will try to continue it laterz . . .)