I was looking down at the leaves, t

I was looking down at the leaves, trying to keep an eye on their glint in the dim moonlight, when a noise went shooting right through me. Sounded like a woman screaming or laughing, it was hard to tell which. It wasn’t quite human, but so familiar. It got trapped inside my brain without a hope in hell of escaping anytime soon. My head was pounding, aching and filled with the sound. And just when I thought it was impossible to get any louder, it did, weirdly in synch with the wind picking up. I felt like one of those bonkers characters from the Planet of the Apes films, controlled in body and mind by freaky subterranean folk.