What Lurks in the Dark?

Darkness is not just an absence of light, as most would believe. No. Darkness is a palpable thing. One of which all people can control.

Can find fear or comfort in.

Can grow to love.

Or to hate.

And can spread with the simplest of gestures, the simplest of thoughts.

Without meaning.

There was a time when it frightened me.

There was a time when I believed it would consume. That the shadows were a hungry thing that would eat up any good that one held as they wrapped around a person.

What good could hide in the corners in wait?

They frightened me.

They frightened me because I didn't understand.

The darkness isn't something to fear. It wasn't something that waited to leap at you like a beast.

It was there all along.

It was lying in wait.

Waiting for understanding.

Waiting to be controlled.

This is the story of how it came to be.

Of how all those harsh words brought about something that could truly be feared.

Of how I found the strength to leave behind doubt, fear, and embrace what would bring about my wants.

Elune smiles upon me.

It is Elune's wish for me to walk this path.

One cloaked in shadows.

In darkness.

In doing.