• As little baby Richard lay to sleep in his quite and supossedly safe crib, much to his surprise, he was swept away in the middle of the night by a dark figure with no face nor any distinctive bodily features... One day later Richards parents Dorothy and Anthony spent all day looking for little baby Richard, but to the extent of their knowledge, he had rolled out of his crib like he frequently (Somehow) managed to do. For a whole week nothing had turned up about the location of their child, so Anthony, with his wife's consent, called a private detective that had question them a few days earlier, Anthony asked if they could hire him as a full time investagator... A few days later he answered their distress call with a most certain yes, after a few hours of 20 questions of what Anthony and Dorothy remembered, he left with a sort of distained goodbye... Private detective Morris never really talked much unless interogating or asking around for information...

    Years had gone by and no sign of Richard, and unbeknownst to the parents, he was right under their nose the entire time, one night Dorothy had fallen asleep alot sooner than usual because she had taken medicine for a terrible flu that had ravaged her body for quite sometime now, and as she lay there in her sleep, she heard many voices... Here and there, she could pick out some English words but to the best of her knowledge, it was mostly in Italian...

    "E 'c'è, egli è sempre stato lì, e lui non potrà mai lasciare, per il vostro amore per lui è la gretest abbiamo visto, e verrà Premiata una volta in aldilà ... Ma prima si deve trovare con lui non aiuta, perché è sempre stata lì ..."

    Over and over again inher head, she couldn't get it out, but it seemed especially strong when during slumber... One week later something unusual had happened, they found an article of clothing that Richard had been wearing the night he went missing, that same day Detective Morris rang at their door at 5:30 AM telling them everything they needed to know... That night Dorothy had gone mad with confusion and mixed emotions of what had happened, Anthony didn't know if he could go on without her, and resulted in a drink laced with arsenic...

    What Detective Morris had told them was that their baby had never gone missing, but it was actually them who had been missing, for he was there during the kidnapping of Richard and he was there when he was taken to the darkest reaches of the planet Xen, a desolate wasteland somewhere in the coldest depths of space, everywhere they looked, black, pure black, and the silence of the darkness was enough to make one go insane. Morris had seen what Richard had seen at that horrid place, the beatings that ensued, and the gruesome slaughterings of earlier captives... They were eaten alive by ravenous monsters never seen by human eyes, and occasionally dropped through a never ending pit for all eternity. But what Morris had told Dorothy and Anthony that had really set them off, was the simple fact that when he was young he was taken by a mysterious figure and taken to Xen, then beaten, whipped, and mutalated, and when he came back, he helped a poor family look for their son who had gone missing the same date he had, and was somehow the same year he was taken, but he had also somehow aged by 34 years, and that their baby never went missing, that he had been with them all this time... That Special Investigator Morris had changed his name a few days after returnung from Xen, to Morris....... From Richard...