The hermit had been happily sitting at his usual campsite in the woods just off the tracks. The smell of burning oak and a freshly cooked can of beans wafting through the trees.
        Then, he noticed a rustling in the bushes. A rustling that begged the question, was he about to make a new woodland critter friend or a new meal. His rough hands pulled the twigs of the bush back like a curtain to reveal an alien figure crouched over an oily lump.
        A black inky substance dripped from every inch of the creature as it stood. It's long face was riddled with deep holes and nothing else. One clawed hand reached out and Darrell swears to this day that he saw the stars within the dripping ink.
        Darrell had been running by the train tracks for nearly a mile now. The alien contorting in various forms as it chased him. It was on all fours one second and the next it had twisted around at the hip to chase him sideways on three limbs.
        A train horn blared in the distance ahead. Lights cause the outline of the trees to glow while casting clusters of thin shadows on the two runners. The rails shake violently as the train rips past. Being an experienced homeless man, Darrell does the smartest thing he can and jumps into a rail car nearly without effort. Aside from stumbling into a seat against a hay-bale by the wall.
        He had let out several hefty sighs before finally resining to try for whatever sleep he could get after that. Through half closed eyes there came a vision of a faceless head of ink melding in through the front wall. The holes in it's head seamed to stare into his soul. Lanky arms dangled loosely into the train car. Darrell scrambled to his feet in a sleepy stuppor and fell strait out of the open door. Coming to the end of his roll he noticed the monstrosity making its way out of the door with a contorting flip.

      With not many options the hobo decided to buy himself some more time and grabbed a handle of the speeding train car. Depite the jarring dislocation of his shoulder he hung on long enough to see the inky monster try to follow him. The steel wheels sparked over the track as the creature was caught, shredded, and splashed over the side of the train in a nebulous graffiti.