Week 6 Storytelling - Omnipresent

It was a cold night in the middle of winter. A boy lay asleep in his bed. Sleeping, sleeping peacefully at the beginning of his slumber but then the boy began to tense up and his body language became contorted as if to convey messages of pain. Now we enter the mind of the boy and see what he dreams of. The boy is in an big empty room, he slowly navigates through the darkness looking for a way out. He sees a faint light and frantically presses forward. He feels as if something is following him and is too scared to look back. He breaks out into a run and storms through a door leading outside. Its nighttime, and there is no moon to aid the oppressing darkness. The area is heavily wooded and the young boy has no choice but to navigate through the forest. He does not think about it long because he feels that same feeling of being followed by an ominous omnipresent presence. The forest is very dark and not much light from the sky peeks through the dense forestry. The boy begins to hear a ringing sound, as the forest progressively grows darker and harder to pass through. The boy decides to change direction and find an easier path to traverse. The ringing subsides however the forest still grows darker. The ringing begins and the boy becomes feeling helpless. But this feeling soon subsides as the boy makes it out onto the forest and onto a mile wide unpaved road with forestry lining both sides. The boy cannot see when this road ends for the darkness does not permit it. The boy begins his journey down the unfinished path and stares intently forward. His fear compels his pupils forward and blurs his peripheral vision from gazing. However, for this reason the boy thinks he sees something. Peeking out of the forest, a tall slender entity. He can not make it out and closes his eyes to clear his vision but see nothing. The boy awakens in his room, drenched in a cold sweat with a putrid smell enveloping his nostrils.

Authors Note: I loosely, loosely based this story off of the prompt based on Ravana’s dreams during his slumber. The only thing that I retold from that story was that the main character is experiencing something while asleep. I just wanted to tell a story about a nightmare a boy was experiencing because some entity is haunting him and his dreams. I left the ending as a cliffhanger so I can see what people interpret happening and taking that feedback and extending the story for my portfolio. 

Painting of an entity that haunts children in their slumber