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Forest child
2019
It was a normal night, I had brushed my teeth and taken my medicine.
I fell asleep quickly(wich is strange because even with melatonin pills I don't fall asleep that fast)
And in the moment what I thought was me just waking up in the middle of the night: I was dreaming.
It was one of those dreams where you wake up in where you fell asleep nothing really feels out of the ordinary, I don't know why but I immediately went to the window and that specific windows was facing the gravel road leading up to my house.
I opened the blinds like I was looking for something, in the dream I struggled with the blinds because they where bent and awkward to use, and I saw a figure on the gravel road: they weren't moving when I saw them, just kind of twitching, balancing their legs like when a statue is slightly nudged off balance.
I never knew why but in the moment I wasn't as afraid as I thought I would be, but the siluhetted figure I thought was facing the other way just turned around and walked into the tree line and blended in with the forest.
I woke up the next morning right before the sun had risen and looked out the same window trying to find them, fortunately I didn't.
The figure on gravel had been facing me
He went into the forest facing away from me
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