Username: honey & spice
Prompt used: Spooky
Submission: Charlotte shivered, drawing her cloak tighter over her shoulders. She sent a glance up at the sky, the milky moonlight streaming down through the thinning autumn leaves above. It was getting late, later than Charlotte was comfortable staying out. Though, it wasn't as if she could do anything about it. She was stuck, wandering the woods until she found her way again. An owl screeched in the branches of a lofty maple before leaping from the tree, silent wings carrying it off in search of some mouse or bluejay to sink it's talons into.
A cold prickle running down her neck, Charlotte couldn't help but wonder if she would fall to the same fate as the bird's prey, left bloodied and lifeless by some silent killer. She tried to push the thoughts from her mind, forcing her feet to keep moving, taking one step after another. The crunching of the leaves under her boots set her on edge, the noise sounding too loud in the eerily quiet woods. Something rustled in the dying patch of hemlock behind her, forcing her pace faster. Though she wandered without direction, Charlotte walked with a purpose, trying to escape the oppressive darkness, the spooky sounds, and the foggy haze all around her. The forest seemed to close in around her, somehow so confining and trapping while being unimaginably vast. With each tree she passed, Charlotte only got more turned around, twisting in circling paths, doubling back and looking for landmarks, trying to keep any sense of direction she could manage. Though, she only plunged herself further into the unknown, destined to wander for eternity, hopelessly, desperately lost. With waning hope and rising panic, Charlotte locked herself deep within her fears, slipping through reality's fine gaps into a world of long forgotten mysteries.