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You were caught completely off-guard by this unexpected light: burning with the colour of a thousand campfires, its actual illumination seemed to be rather small. It almost seemed like the light was being directed into one specific direction; reflecting off of something hidden behind the bushes, you could see it occasionally being blocked by…
there was someone in there.
Quickly snapping out of your dazed state, you slinked your way behind the side of the bank. Slowly creeping further behind this artificial hill, you began seeing what, or rather <span class="mu-i">who</span> was hiding behind the underbrush. If you had entered the row some five steps left of your current position, you would have certainly bumped into him.
The man you saw looked like no one you had seen before. Donning a tight black attire and a small hat that resembled an upturned bowl, his face sported another small moustache which was different from the ones you had seen on the men in the blob. His activities were even more foreign to you, using a bent pipe to shine the yellow light on a larger, more angular tube which was of a dark green colour. He was busy poking an even smaller metal rod into this tube, which you now saw featured two short cylindrical stubs on one of its sides. Occasionally he would turn the small metal rod, creating the odd stutter in the noise, which seemed to originate from this dark-green cuboid.
While you once again waited for your eyes to adjust, the man suddenly stopped using the tiny metal rod. In another heartbeat, the man had stuffed the rod in his pants pocket and turned his head.
He was now directly looking at you.
Instinctively, you held your breath and hoped he hadn’t seen you. It was dark after all, and his sight must’ve surely been diminished by the beam of light… that was now shining directly into your eyes.
Raising your hand to cover your eyes, you realized it was already too late: you were completely blinded. Trying your best to readjust your eyes after the sudden flash, you looked at the spot the man was occupying a second ago.
The only thing you saw when your sight returned was the still-shining tube lying on the ground. The mysterious man had disappeared into thin air.
Trying to back up your vision with your ears, you tried listening for any trace of the man escaping the scene. You heard nothing over the rustling of leaves.
