Epilogue:
Deputy Terrence Yew abruptly lost radio contact with the sheriff’s station while reporting that he had recovered Alyssa and Adam Redwood. A squad car was sent immediately to the deputy’s last known location. The responding officer/deputy reported that the deputy was dead, but Adam Redwood was alive and in the car. He had crashed into an unknown object that was at first speculated to be a hit-and-run, but collision reports indicate that the front of the car was deeply dented into a V-shape by an object that was something too slender to be any type of automobile.
The damage from the crash doesn’t appear to have been what killed the deputy. There was a large wound through the deputy’s chest that ran all the way through his seat that suggests that he was impaled. When Adam Redwood was questioned, he didn’t seem to recall anything that happened after a recent bus accident that claimed the lives of several children.
A search party was sent into the forest to find more information about the crash and to search for Alyssa Redwood. Her guitar was found muddied but intact in a pile of leaves. A small distance away from the guitar, a few members of the search party noted that one of an odd tree’s lower branches had a large amount of blood on it and around that branch was a large copper Star of David necklace that the Redwood family confirmed had been in the possession of Alyssa Redwood the last time she’d been seen…
DNA analysis of the blood sample taken from the branch revealed that it belonged to Deputy Yew. The bark on the trunk of the tree was severely gouged, and had paint marks that matched the paint of Deputy Yew’s patrol car, and microscopic bits of glass taken from the tree branch matched the glass from the windshield. The diameter and shape of the tree exactly matched the indention in the front of the car, indicating that the tree was what the patrol car had collided with, however the vehicle was found more than two miles from the tree and there were no tire marks in the leaves and mud, damage to trees between the damaged tree and the road, or other evidence that the vehicle had veered into the forest. No other signs of Alyssa Redwood were ever found.
Concept Art Section:
About the Author:
Dexter Morgenstern was born in North Carolina and has been home-schooled most of his life in part due to being diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome at an early age, which led to being somewhat socially outcast. Over time, Dexter developed a vivid imagination and love for chemistry and biology. This led him to delve into the world of science fiction and begin writing at the age of fifteen.Dexter combined his imagination with his appreciation for science, and competed in the NaNoWriMo contest in 2011 at the age of 17. He successfully finished the contest and finally drafted his first novel, “Felix Faust” as part of the Arcane Insurrection series.
Visit him at http://DexterMorgenstern.com
About the Artist:
Anna is a Swedish artist and art teacher who recently moved to Washington State. She has a background within the art and media field from several art schools and universities and received her MA in 2010. Anna’s artwork mainly contains mixed media where graphical drawings and sculpture are the two main elements. She has a great interest in fantasy worlds and gathers her inspiration from the deep forests of nature, old folklore stories and things unexplained.
Table of Contents
Copyright
1: The Sabbath
2: The Accident
3: The Hospital
4: The Funeral
5: The Sickness
6: The Sadness
7: The Tree
8: The Disappearance
9: The Assembly
10: The Reprieve
11: The Party
12: The Discussion
13: The Nightmare
14: The Branch
15: The Rescue
16: The Shrink
17: The Reprisal
18: The Message
19: The Walk
20: The Slender Man
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About the Author:
About the Artist:
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