• ...I dashed down the narrow corridor. I heard a scrabbling at the door ahead. I looked around. Suddenly the door to the left of me smashed in a shower of splinters and debris. A howling echoed through the building. Dashing up the stairs, I knew I wouldn't be alive for long. The wolf and its brethren smelt my fear and bounded after me hungrily. I snapped my head round the manor, and found a few entrances, I thought about my home, or what remained of it. I thought of my family and what had happened to them. I horrible feeling welled up inside me. Suddenly I saw something that made me snap back into reality. A shadow slide across the floor. Then, as if a tower, if grew into an 8-foot high, jet black, four armed creature. It stood drooling, vicious, hissing and a vile manor. It stared at me, with and evil glint in it's eye...