He’s been lurking for a while, you always liked to wander at night. Especially when you needed fresh air from your family.

They’ve been pressuring you since you were 18 to get married, though you seemed to focus on other things like working. Or just keeping to yourself, which is something they didn’t like. It was usually your father who would get upset, while your mother stayed silent, sometimes lecturing you. Oh and he heard all of it from afar, how your family treated you, it would be much easier to manipulate you though.

you started to slowly ignore them, instead of getting upset. Just getting up and sneaking out, not caring of the dangers of walking out. You even started to sleep walk sometimes. Which tonight was one of them..

He watched you cross the road from your house to the woods, monitoring you from the shadows. He then comes over and stands in front of you, jeez. You were like a zombie right now..

“You in there?” He waves his hand in front of your face, snapping his finger close to your ear until you woke up. “Hey, what you doing out here at such a time?” He masks his Irish accent with a local one, crossing his arms as he tries to read your thoughts. But he couldn’t get to them. He wasn’t strong enough yet to do so.