Awakening

We woke from a dreamless sleep to darkness and silence. Our chamber was lit only by starlight. The clouds of our breath hung in the frozen air.

We are aware of you in the distance. You have no reason to suspect that we exist. You will continue on your present path. You have no reason to deviate from it. Your projected track will cross ours in the near future, at a time which we can estimate and does not even occur to you. You will make no preparations for the encounter, but we will. As you draw closer, we will listen and we will watch. We will be ready, you will not.

We were waiting. We are watching. We are coming!

 (14th November 2016 – 114 words)

An exercise in writing a prologue or beginning for something longer. This is intended to be menacing. It is almost stand-alone. The beginning of the story proper will start fresh and be disconnected.