Hey! No idea where this came from...

Hello. What brings you here? Lost, you say? Well, yes, the woods can be quite confusing. Come in, Come in. It's not often I get visitors.

I'm sorry, you'll have to speak up. My ears don't work like they used to, you see. Now, what did you say? Oh, why is an old woman living by herself in the woods? Well, I used to have my husband and two children with me. But that's a nasty story, not for young children like yourself. Well, if you insist...

It was awhile ago. My husband was studing different kinds of trees. There was a name for people like that, but for the life of me I can't remember it now. Anyway, that's why we moved to the woods...

I was off taking a walk one day. I loved the flowers and the cute animals. Then a strange animal came. It looked somewhat like a deformed fox, with red, red eyes. After all these years, I never forgot those eyes. They haunt me...

I backed away from the creature. I thought it might be rabid. Then it launched itself at me and... then... then...

Well, I don't really remember. I woke up the next day in my bed. No one knew anything about it, said I came home same as normal. I figured it was just a dream. But then, strange things started to happen. Are you sure you want me to go on? This is the scary part, you see... okay then, don't say I didn't warn you...

My oldest child went first. Aaron, his name was. He woke up one day with a huge... well... bite mark in his arm. Well, he screamed loud enough to wake the dead, but I suppose that no dead were there because only we came running. Claire, my youngest, cried and buried her head in my shoulder, so I must have been carrying her... funny how details like that escape you...

He died about an hour later. We planned on taking his body to the town the next day, bury him, but the next day, the body was gone. Not a stain of blood anywhere to show that he even existed...

My husband went the same way, about a month later. Then only Claire and I were left. She begged me to leave, but I insisted that we stayed in the woods. Why? Well, that's not for a young child like yourself to understand...

Anyway, she went a year later, and now I'm alone.

Why didn't the creature take me? Well, I'm not sure about that. Maybe it tried to and couldn't. What? You said my eyes looked red just then? Well, yes, they do that sometimes... when I'm hungry...

Huh... that was shorter than I planned... oh well...