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Billy Peters lay in his bed unable to sleep. Over the past several days, the 13 year old child had felt uneasy, almost as if someone had been watching him. The feeling would come and go, in fact, there were times when it was the furthest thing from his mind. However, one the night fell and darkness descended upon the streets of the city of Lost Haven, the uneasiness would begin to take a hold again. 

The eerie feelings he experienced did nothing but alienate him from his friends and family. An only child, Billy didn’t have any brothers or sisters that he could discuss his fears with, and when he tried to address the issue with his parents, they didn’t want to hear it and dismissed him as having an overactive imagination. Fearful of facing ridicule from his friends, Billy kept quiet about the matter around them as well, leaving him to deal with his fears on his own. 

Today was the day that the anxiety that he felt had been at its peak. He could not explain it, however from the moment that he had awoke in the morning, to the time he had gotten to school, and for the remainder of the day he had felt as if someone were there, keeping a constant vigil on him as he went through his daily routine. Even as he sat in the windowless dining room during dinner, he was unable to shake the feeling that he was being watched. As he lay in his bed, the strange sensation only intensified. 

As he lay in the dark, his imagination began to run wild. Every time the old house made a creak, each time a shadow ran across his wall, he imagined a monster or demon were running about with plans to “get” him. When finally he heard the sounds of something scratching at his window, he nearly jumped out of his skin.

Reluctantly, he looked up. He had hoped to find that again, it was simply his mind playing tricks on him. That the scratching and tapping at the window was simply a stray tree branch blowing against the house in the wind. However, what he found when he looked to the window nearly made his heart stop. 

Instead of a tree branch, Billy saw a figure from his nightmares. A tall man dressed all in black, including a long black leather duster. His pale skin looked almost luminous in the moonlight. On his head was a black Stetson hat, the brim pulled down covering his eyes. Billy stared at the man for a moment, the blinked his eyes several times, hoping that the action would reveal that the man was nothing more than his imagination running wild. However, the man did not vanish as he’d hoped. 

Billy jumped up from his bed, every instinct telling him to run out of the room, to get his parents, to show them the intruder. He wanted to prove to them that what he had been feeling was real, that he wasn’t imagining it. Yet, once he was out of his bed he didn’t move toward the door at all. Instead, he felt a sudden calm wash over him. 

Before he knew it, Billy had moved toward the man at the window. Without realizing what he was doing, Billy found himself opening the window, almost as if he had been compelled to do so. He looked up at the pale man, and could see that he was smiling.

“Would you like to come with me Billy?” The man said in a strange voice, a voice that sounded as if several people were speaking through a window fan.

Immediately, Billy knew that the man at the window meant him no harm, and shook his head in agreement. 

The man raised his head slightly, allowing Billy to see his entire face for the first time. When Billy looked into the man’s eyes, he saw that something was wrong. The man’s eyes were totally black. There were no pupils, the whites of the eyes were black as pitch. It were as if the man’s eyes were nothing more than shards of night, and even that did not give the young boy pause. Instead, he reached up and took the man’s outstretched hand and allowed himself to be lead out the window.

“My name is Fagan, and I am going to show you a whole new world.” The man in black said as he and the child vanished into the night.