Content notes: oral sex, hand sex, biting, blood, T4Cryptid sex
You go because of the rumor: There's a monster in the woods.

As stories go, it's little to go on, probably just another false lead. But Francine hates to leave a lead alone to languish in the general inbox, just waiting to be snapped up by 3 Spooked Girls or Buzzfeed Unsolved. Paranormal investigation media is a niche, but it's your niche, so you pack a bag and put a ticket to Seattle on Francine's credit card, and twenty-four hours after the email comes in, you're in a rented Subaru driving away from Seattle's rain and into the mist of the Washington rainforests.

The town is so small you get lost three times on back roads just trying to find it, and you take deep breath...