Day 1

I arrived at the secluded farm at ██:██ and parked my car next to the police car that was still there. The husband was at the door and appeared to be fine, although worried. He gestured at me to leave, but I approached him firmly.

"What have yo done? Now she's never gonna let you go, too…" he said.

He sounded devastated. I went into the house and he made me follow him to a room in the upper floor. The policeman was also there, safe and sound. He was sitting in the ground, with signs of having been crying recently, his clothes slightly damaged and a scratch in his chin. When I tried to inspect it, he flinched. I told him to trust me, but he told me that it would be hard for him to ever trust a woman again after what "she" had done to him. I asked who she was, but the husband answered in his place, saying it was his wife.

He told me it was the water. She drank it straight from the well, but not him. It was changing her. The more she drank, the worse she got. They warned me to not make her angry, to obey and to never try to leave the house. She was no longer human. I told them to wait there and as I was about to go back to my car to get my things when we heard a noise downstairs.

"Quick! She's coming!" they said.

Those were the tensest seconds of my life while I waited for the thing to come upstairs. Then she appeared in the threshold and I froze completely. She was unclothed. Her skin had turned dark grey and her body barely had any mass. Her face, exhibiting a disturbing expression, had mutated to grotesque proportions and her eyes reflected the light like those of night predators. But what was truly terrifying was the way she moved; it was uncanny, twitchy… Almost like the way people look like when moving around in a club with those blinking, intermittent lights, but with the strange poses of an undead monstrosity.

"Well, it looks like we have a guest" she smiled, while her husband and the police officer cowered in fear. Then she suddenly jumped at me, placing her twisted face at 15 centimeters of mine and quickly taking my gun in her hands. She smiled at me, declaring "No guns allowed in this house, honey…"

She took my weapon with her and announced that we would be having dinner in one hour. She was almost friendly the whole time, but in a disturbing way, looking like she could snap in any moment. And now I was defenseless against her. I tried to discuss a plan with her two hostages, but they were too scared to attempt anything. At ██:██, when went downstairs to have dinner.

We sat at the table with that thing… It was surrealistic. She served us some vegetables, and I flinched every time she was close to me and twitched. Otherwise, we also remained completely still and quiet. There was a glass of water for every one of us, but I could see the lips of Mr. ██████ silently articulating the command "Don't. Drink. The. Water." as the police officer stared at me nervously. It was too late.

"Drink a little water, love" said the creature.

"Uh… no, thanks, I'm not thirsty" I replied.

"Drink the water" she insisted, a bit less calmly. "Hydration is very import for your health."

"No, really, I don't want to…"

She stood up, frowning, and grabbed my glass, repeating one last time "drink the water" and then, with almost no time for a reaction on my part, she hold my nose with her fingers, forcefully threw my head back and started to dump the contents of the glass into my throat. I resisted for a little, but eventually gave up and had to chug the whole glass of water. I finished it and, as I was coughing, she smiled again, patted me in the back and said "that's better". I noticed the water left a faint white residue in the glass and assumed that powder was the source of Mrs. ██████'s mutation.

Later that night, we were sent to a bedroom upstairs and all locked there for the night. I made myself vomit the water by inserting my fingers in my throat. I fucking hate puking… Then I asked the others what was happening, what was in the water, and what did they know about the thing in the well, but they couldn't say much. We went to sleep. Or we tried.