A heart-stopping bang left you bolting straight up from your bedsheets and staring at the door of your closet with your pulse throbbing in your throat. Your eyes flitted about your bedroom with panic as you tried to pinpoint the sound that had woken you up so suddenly... but you saw nothing. You listened hard for any other noises, but heard nothing else for almost a solid minute.

This sound had come as a heavy surprise to you. It had been quiet for months in your secluded little cabin in