Quite taken aback, you stand there, staring in the darkness.
"Who is there?" Your voice seems to lose itself in the darkness, making it sound even more feeble.
"Have no fear..." The voice seems to trace over your skin like the cool touch of a soothing hand.
The orange glow around the altar slightly brightens and you have the feeling that somehow, you can vaguely see the outlines of the room, like shadows in a deeper dark. You cannot make out anything clear, but you have the feeling like you are in the moment of waiting for your eyes to adjust to the darkness.
"Wh...who are you..." You slowly step towards the altar, still looking around timidly. Despite the slight increase in brightness, you still are not able to see more- more than this vague feelin of being just a step from actually being able to make out the contures of walls and objects.
"I am sorry, but you won't be able to see more than this." The voice trails over your bare skin making the small hairs on your body stand up. "This is a place of night and dreams and neither of those can remain in the bright, as neither can I..."
You feel another shiver run down your body. The voice doesn't seem inimidating or even scary, but you somehow feel shame, as if the speaker knew your innermost secrets. You feel naked, exposed not only in a physical sense. If it wasn't so dark, the blush on your face would have been quite clearly visible.
"Do not feel ashamed..." The voice seems soothing again.
"You do not need to hide yourselve in the darkness, you need not fear in the dream..."
You feel your body relax slightly under the etheral sound of the voice.
"I am the dark king of the night..."
The altar's light slowly seems to fade, but somehow, you no longer feel afraid.
"I summoned you to my realm to sent you to a certain place, an imbalanced world in the twilight..."
You feel an odd sensation, as the voice speak, like the temptation of possiblity.
"...but it will be your decision, what to do. Do not forget that, for whatever path you seek, the bless of the night shall be with you..."
Suddenly, a dim of light seems to swirl in the air, like a little swarm of fireflies.
Slowly, the glowing swirls condensate in a swarm of strange, darkly glowing symbols drifting through the air.
"But before you go, tell me about your dreams and desires..."
The swarm seems to part as two familiar symbols drift towards you and suddenly you realize, that they only seemed small to you due to the great distance.
The one is a darkblue circle with an arrow extending towards the upper right, the other one, also cyclic, though darkred has a cross pointing downwards.
"Make your choices... and remember, what you chose needs not be what your real self is..."
The voice trails away, leaving you alone, the glowing symbols floating around you like stars in the nightsky.
