Blinding beams of moonlight shone down from the heavens encapsulating the intense downpour forced towards the road my car was traversing through as if to open a tunnel to the harsh depths of hell itself.

Onwards I travelled at a steady pace through a desolate land uninhabited apart from the various flies surely hiding in the darkness however my speed was too great to witness their solitude.

A strange occurrence transpired.

In the distance ahead of me a mysterious figure positioned directly in the centre of the country road was revealed, comparable to a threatening scarecrow embodying intimidation over its proprietary forgotten plain. As my approach persisted their size grew in conjunction with my advance. Their position however maintained. Statue still.

Perhaps I wasn’t thinking clearly from the exhaustion after a long days work, my eyes were heavy & legs were achy. I couldn’t fathom being stuck out here alone with no option but to simply reside in the midst of a dominating storm, so I pulled up beside the figure.

Silence followed.

“Who are you?” I questioned, inspecting this unfamiliar soul. A woman, wearing a dark drenched coat dripped down to her grimy white trainers. Ripped denim jeans accompanied her attire with a sincere look of desperation in her tired, empty eyes. She looked fragile, like a statue of pure ice positioned in a military firing line.

“You going this way?” I pursued. Silence.

“Come on in, I’ll take you somewhere safe at least.” Hesitatingly I reached over to unlock the passenger door which seemed to persuade the woman to enter. The door shut. I proceeded to drive.

Once my new companion accompanied me it occurred that the moonlight had not shifted, barely at least. It was as if I was driving round & round in a circle across a much smaller, spherical terrain. Clearly I had underestimated my lethargic detachment from reality thanks to todays transient insomnia.

Spiralling down this endless route a something new caught my eye, a car lay beside the road trashed as if it had come head first with an aggravated opposing force. I jumped out to help whoever remained.

“Hey! Anybody there?”

Silence.

Upon closer inspection the car had seemingly been in a crash, there was no person inside, the doors were locked shut & all what remained was a splatter of blood atop the steering wheel. Since there were no casualties my next instinct was to return to my car where I noticed similar damage to my own car. Shocking confusion ensued.

“What the hell is going on?!” I asked myself during re-entry of my seemingly newly damaged vehicle. The woman beside me turned which was shocking in itself as no other human expressions had been shown prior. Her hood lifted down & revealed a crack in her skull, hair split like a scorched path of grass. I stared, dumbfounded.

Hesitantly I looked once again forward & noticed a similar splash of blood, even across my windscreen as if it was previously beyond my perception.

In a last ditch attempt to convince my unearthly fear as fictional my hand reached atop my forehead. I inspected. Oh god.

We set off down the road once more.

Awareness of my ongoing situation was finally realised. As my epiphany initiated, the car on the side of the road stopped reappearing. Reluctant acceptance allowed my ticket of eternal bliss.

The End.