She's missing time. Yesterday is gone from her memory.
She's started waking up in strange places. In the middle of the woods, in abandoned homes.
She gets tested for sleepwalking. It doesn't occur in a clinical setting.
She starts seeing a therapist, thinking she might have anterograde amnesia or dissociative identity disorder or... something. When he asks her to start a journal of gaps in time and strange occurrences, it suddenly stops happening.
But her dreams become strange. She dreams of running through the woods at night, stalked by something she can't see but knows is there. She dreams of wandering through the abandoned side of town where nobody wants to build anything, where she herself never goes. She dreams of falling forever.
And then she starts seeing something, out of the corner of her eye, a tall black shape that always disappears when she looks at it. She tells her therapist. He seems concerned and asks if she's ever experienced auditory hallucinations. She tells him she hasn't. He says auditory hallucinations tend to precede visual ones, but tells her to keep journaling. He says that she should write down every time she experiences something that might be a hallucination.
That night, when she comes home from therapy and sets aside her bag, she hears something. She hears the sound of howling wind, coming from right outside her window. When she looks outside, the trees are still.
One of them, tall and thin and black, is not supposed to be there.
