[Solved] [Terrifying Tales] Beneath The Watching Dark

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  'So much for a "nice weekend adventure".' Hayk hauled himself up over the edge of the snowy cliff, and huffed with the effort. 'The wrap was worth it, though.'

  Hayk was reminiscing to himself about his dinner from a couple nights before. After a long day in the shop, he hadn't felt like cooking dinner, so he went out for something quick and inexpensive... which brought him to Dark Fried Ronto Wraps. The food chain had the notorious reputation for making the best Ronto Wraps west of... anywhere, really, even better than RontoWrap themselves. On the back of the holomenu, there was an offer to get your meal free if you committed to going on the Modus Steppe hike during the weeks before Celanon's Harvest Festival.

  According to the blurb on the menu, Modus was named after the long-dead Darth Modus, who had been one of the only Sith of old times to wander as far south in the galaxy as the Hapes Consortium's territories, where his followers ended up making a tomb in his honour. Apparently, the Modus tourism board even made sure the tomb was stocked with keepsakes for those tourists brave enough to enter the tomb... and come back alive.

  As to why Hayk found himself here on this particular night, beneath the crumbling Sith statues... Long story short, Hayk had no plans for the weekend, and who could say no to a free ronto wrap... even if it had only been 3 and 33 sub-credits. Also, with his diplomatic relations with the Hapan Queenmother, and friendship with her daughter, he was allowed to come and go throughout Hapan space as he pleased.

  Although, now that he was here, the place definitely didn't seem as pleasant as the brochure. The cold wind bit deeply, which only added to the eerieness of the crevice in the stone before him. Most of all, what struck Hayk was how the darkness in the doorway seemed darker than night itself, even though he could make out a crimson light flooding from a cooridor somewhere within the mountain. Though there was light within, the darkness seemed deep enough to have eyes.

  Hayk took a step forwards anyways, mumbling.

  'I'm here anyways, and I don't really have anything better to do...'