You've been left in the forest for some time. The villages had grown tired of being terrorized by the monster that lives among these trees, but your village specifically had chosen to do something about it.

A sacrifice.

Now, hours after first being chained to the tree, you feel the chains give and you collapse to the ground. Once you look up, there his is. Tall, skin pulled taught over lithe muscles and angled bones, the bright light peering through otherwise empty sockets that bore. The Haze.