Liprikonn : the night when the candles will be lit

18:00, April 25, 1986 Argyle’s “team” emerged from the van. A tall, dark, fearsome tower, visible on the horizon, stretched upward, literally piercing the sky with its sharp spiers. It was already evening and it was getting darker, and in this darkness it was even more frightening. Will trembled all over his body, he again felt pain in his neck and remembered one very incomprehensible incident from his life: it seems that he had already seen this tower somewhere… He even remembers this “hellish” path consisting of red flowers. Once, as a child, he decided to go to one colorful place, alone… “The day was simply wonderful: warm, sunny, but evening came too quickly, I didn’t even have time to come to my senses… I don’t even remember how old I was then… eight or nine — it doesn’t matter… Then, I remember, I had a dream: at first, as if I would be chatting with Mike about something, then I remember: the tower is dark — very dark, the flowers are either covered in blood, or the color is so interesting — bloody. A huge field… It even seemed endless. It’s dark all around. Night: no stars, no moon, just darkness… It was so scary then that it seemed that something bad would happen, and I would die without waking up… So, I walk forward along this dead field, plunging more and more into the darkness, my heart is pounding, my hands are trembling… I approach the tower — a man in a suit and hat is standing, saying nothing, his face cannot be seen. I’m standing there and I feel it: he’s staring at me, looking into my soul, as if he wants to take it away, but nothing else… He turns around and walks further along the deserted field. I even somehow felt uneasy at that moment… Strange… Here, I look at the sky — a dragon: gigantic, black, and he takes it and flies away, and the sky is bright, it’s day outside… I wake up, Mike is standing on the street, shouting my name, asking me to go for a walk. We walked around a bit, rode bikes, Lucas and Dustin were busy. It’s six in the evening, I remember about this place from a dream, I remember what someone told about it: that there is such a tower in Hawkins, it’s called Liprikonn, but I didn’t really believe it, even though I was just a child, but… There were great doubts, I understood that this was just my dream. I took bus number 345, brand “Ikarus”; There were bad rumors about this bus, and in general, about these manufacturers: someone said that supposedly some kind of criminal gang owned this company, then the bus driver himself was a maniac, then a Satanist, or a pedophile. But I didn’t think much about these stories and calmly boarded the bus. The only strange thing is that… I was there alone… And the bus driver didn’t even look at me, which is also strange… For some reason I sat down in the furthest seats by the window, where I was more accustomed; I still like to sit by the window. We drove through some forests, fields… not a single house… The sunset had almost gone beyond the horizon, but the sunset didn’t alarm me at all, and even the fact that we were going, I don’t understand where, I didn’t know where to stop yet, I just said to the driver to stop at an abandoned tower (there was one abandoned water tower there), but the man apparently misunderstood me and stopped near another tower… Near the same tower from my dream! To say that I was shocked then is to say nothing. Darkness fell. I became unbearably scared, I froze, I could not move or utter a word. Here, I turn my head to the driver’s seat — he was wearing a hat and a trouser suit… Suddenly, he takes off his hat, gets off the bus and also goes into the distance, holding the hat in his hands, as in my dream, dissolving into the endless darkness… Then I I could see his hair — black, like everything that surrounded this place. I don’t remember how I ended up at home, I only remember this mysterious tower, bloody flowers, pitch darkness and a scary man in a hat…” Will recalled. -Hey, why are you frozen? — Argyle suddenly calls out to the guy. Will, confused, turns to him, but still doesn’t answer. — Have you looked at the time at all? Why is it so dark, night is still far away, — Lucas tells the guys in fear. - Does anyone know why we came here? — Max asks, grinning ironically and looking at the guys. — We came to the rescue to save this world! — Dustin shouts enthusiastically. — Save from what? There’s nothing wrong with it yet… — Max doesn’t have time to finish, when suddenly… The dragon flies from the sky, turning “night” into evening. “It wasn’t a real night! It’s a dragon! His wings are just gigantic!” — Will thinks, being in the wildest anxiety. The dragon flies straight at them… Max, in a panic, takes Will’s hand, and they hide behind the van, everyone else follows suit. *** For the other guys, everything was a little different. Everyone else got out of the car behind Steve and were horrified by what they saw: — Oh y God! — Nancy shouted in fear, covering her mouth with her hands. — This… Again! — Jonathan got angry. “So Will is probably already in danger…” Mike thought, looking at Nancy with alarm, suddenly remembering something strange: - Nancy, you know… I recently had a dream… There was a dark tower, a man in a hat, and Will… The sister’s pupils dilated in fear, and she said with a trembling voice, looking towards her brother: - Me too…