The Chase

As Meldrum and the silhouette locked eyes again, Meldrum noticed something hanging close to the silhouette. Right then, a strong smell invaded Meldrum's nostrils, the stench of the dead. There were chains going through the sky and hooks penetrating the arms and neck of a woman. The woman was unrecognizable with the scratch marks all over her body, and there was a gaping cavity at the location where a heart was supposed to be located. Immediately, Meldrum flinched and knew, he had made a grave mistake. The silhouette, growing more and more humanoid also grew more brighter, more opaque, and it opened its jaw once more, revealing an endless abyss as the figure screamed out M̵̢̧̭̻̪̌͆̑̀̉̈̉̍̈́͝Ë̶̢͈̮̥́͐́Ḷ̶̲̱̌̏͋̑̈́́̀͜͝͝D̵͚̂͊̽͠Ṙ̸̬͖̞̭͎͗̀͑̈́͑̾͑̚Ủ̷̡̙̥͕̫̣͚́̅̐̚͜͝͠Ḿ̸̘̼̀̋̅͗̄͒!̸̧͓̦̜̭̝̉ Meldrum panicked at the sight of the figure and the revelation that the figure can speak and immediately ran towards the barn. As he ran, he turned his head only to see the figure leap onto the fence surrounding the farm and lunge towards Meldrum, aiming, for, the, kill.