[@Pyromaniacwolf] [hr][h3]Chapter I[/h3]"Pulling aside the strangling bits of kelp, your eyes squint under the starry night and peer for further answers among the wood. For the time being there is no obvious indication of anything special about the wood and your memory still, even yet, has no recall of there being wood or none at all. The entire area seems nebulous and void, with you shuddering to think what would have become of you if you opted to give in to the darkness, to simply fade away in the depths below the conscious mind. This moment of pause ends, just as you hoped it would, and you return to the debris and freeing it from its bonds."

"With another cache hauled ashore, set beside the sand, you quickly acquire your tome one more and heft it under your arm, keeping its surface fast to your tattered clothes. What now to do, to comb more of the beach or venture elsewhere? To sit and ponder on the events or dare to sleep? So many choices that you quickly banish the thoughts, lest your own mind turn again into the maelstrom that had plagued you prior."