In the dream (or was it a dream?), a warm wind swept across Alma's body, like fingertips grazing her flesh, kneading her breasts and thighs, caressing her moist crevices. Strange feelings took hold of her, an unexplainable passion. An invisible force seemed to beckon her. A phantom voice made sounds of pleasure, moaning low as she writhed about on her bed, recalling the joyous celebration of her thirtieth birthday hours before with friends at the Mariner sea food restaurant. She missed her mother who was away on a business trip.
Far away, ritual drums could be heard, celebrating the night of the summer solstice. The primitive beat, the rhythmic pulsations made her blood race, her cunt to quiver. It was just past midnight, the house was very quiet. Alma suddenly became aware of voices in the room chanting, invoking the Lord of shadows to hasten his arrival, to embrace them, to teach them the pleasures of darkness. "What the fuck is this? Am I going crazy? She thought. The room was bathed in bright moonlight from the full moon.
The flame from a votive candle flickered, casting dancing shadows on the walls. But there was no one there. Alma recalled a saying by her mother who once dabbled in the occult and paranormal phenomena. "The solstice night of the Litha Sabbat, is a night when shadows speak and darkness whispers; when the guardians of the night come out".
A deep voice called out to her. "Come to me Alma, come worship the creator of passion little one. Love the night! Worship it! Give yourself freely to joys others can only dream about"
Could this really be happening she thought as her body trembled and a rubescent mist suddenly enveloped the room? Soon she would be consecrated to the Lord of shadows as his handmaiden, said the voice. But somehow she was unafraid as she slid slowly into the realm of shadow, lust and madness.
The mist turned vermilion covering the room as the night wind moved upon the entire bed, caressing Alma, stroking her tumescent clitoris, licking her cunt bringing her pleasure. The voice was still a formless shadow, a phantom lover. Was it madness or Hell, this state she was in? But she was unafraid of her fate, she imagined herself a vestal virgin at the holy shrine of night and a prisoner of unabated desires. She felt like she was chained to her bed, her body lethargic.