Speaker 1: Everybody knew that the woods were not a safe place
to be after the sun had gone down. Wolves prouded
the tree covered hills, and it was said, bandits and
thieves watched for lonely travelers, waiting to separate owners from
their belongings. But those would be the least of your worries.
Something far more sinister haunted the shadows, watching and waiting
for just the right opportunity to come along. And it
would appear such an opportunity was happening right at that moment.
Along the narrow track through the trees, illuminated by the
light of a silvery full moon, hurried a figure wearing
a long, dark cloak and hood. It was exactly what
the lurker in the darkness was hoping for. He plunged
through the inky night on wide bat wings, transforming at
the last moment into a thin, long limbed figure blocking
the traveler's path. Wa Ha, laughed the vampire with menace,
as he flashed his sharp pointed teeth.
Speaker 2: Prepare to meet your.
Speaker 1: Doom, you, what said the figure, stopping abruptly. What did
you say, I said, repeated the vampire.
Speaker 2: Prepare to meet your doom?
Speaker 1: Prepare the meeting room, asked the traveler in confusion. What
are you talking about, you daftbrush. We're in the middle
of the deep dark woods. There ain't no meeting rooms
in here.
Speaker 2: If you'd like to pay attention for a moment, snapped
the vampire crossly, I said, prepare to meet your doom.
Speaker 1: How I'm sorry, cackled the figure as she pulled back
her hood to reveal a head of long tangled hair.
You must have been mumbling or something. You should really
speak more clearly. You say to you a question. I
left it back at my cottage, the vampire normally.
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