It had been a full month since I had driven down this road, this night being very much the same as the other. Though the season was changing, the leafy boughed trees, which canopied this road, still filtered the light from the full moon as it shown brightly in the gray September sky. Looking upward, I savored that light, drew my strength from it. I knew where I was going this time. He had beckoned me and I knew I could no more not go than I could decide not to breathe. He was inside me now; mind... spirit... soul. So when his summons came to me I rose from my bed, not bothering with any other clothing save for the sheer black negligee in which I slept, and entered my car. Setting out to answer his beckoning call. I knew it was after midnight but that did not matter. I must answer. From my very first encounter with this man I knew I was his.
I had met him here, in this cemetery on an unusual night not so long ago. He was a strange tall dark figure standing alone among the headstones and I was simply out for a summer stroll in the middle of the night. Something I did often, never having been concerned with things that may or may not happen to a woman alone in the dark. Why I approached him when I saw him, I cannot say but it was as though I was not acting of my own free will. As if he beckoned me and I had to obey. It was here he first violated me but yet I openly welcomed that violation. Me, a woman who always prided herself on being independent and never subservient to anyone, I allowed his control openly. His taking of me seemed to make me whole... complete. Yet I know there is no other I would ever allow this much of me. I was singular, never bonded, until now. He is my Master.
My short black negligee billowed behind me in the soft autumn wind and though there was a mild chill to the air, I scarce noticed. The sole purpose of my nocturnal visit foremost in my mind, overshadowing all other issues. I felt no climatic discomforts, no hunger, no fear of the night. My hand brush lightly down the front of my filmy gown and stopped at the lower abdomen. Though it had only been a month I knew it was there. I could feel it... Growing... Feeding... Seething inside me. His spirit...his seed.
As I approached the area where I had my first encounter with him, the voice inside me spoke. "Pass by," it whispered in my mind. The voice was low... Echoey. "I await you over here...over here..." The sound was distant, yet near. Inside me, all around me, beyond the cemetery limits. It bounced, first from one ear, then the other, like the sound a good stereo makes with a well-made CD. I continued on.
Passing a particularly large statue I sensed an intent gaze. My heart raced as I felt whatever it was looking at me, reach deep within. I could see the blood red points of light that were its eyes staring hungrily at me. Still I proceeded. My old fortitude remained, as did my non-fear of anything unknown. I never feared the bogeyman and I was not about to start. Beyond the cemetery limits, I entered the darkened woods, very foreboding, very ominous. I could sense his presence and could not understand his reluctance to show himself to me. Inwardly I wondered just where he intended our next encounter and was anxious for it to take place. I had never known a man such as he; never known fulfillment such as he had given unto me that night.
"This way," I heard a hushed guiding voice within me. "Come to my grove." It instructed. The voice ever low, ever echoing with enchantment but still tinged with a dangerous growl. My heartbeat quickened with anticipated excitement.
I saw out of the corner of my eye a shadowy figure as it darted from tree to tree. I couldn't see it clearly but what I did see seemed almost inhuman. Its stature was somewhat crouch like as if it were a normally four-footed animal walking upright on it's two hind legs. The head seemed larger than normal and the way it held its hands made them look paw like, with elongated fingers, clawed at the ends. Now my normally inward fearlessness was somewhat shaken as I realized what it was. Though the creature was only shadows to me now I thought I recognized its silhouette. Still feeling no real fear, ever the adventurous one, I continued.