Plagued by persistent dreams of a giant owl, Special Agent Boudica "Bea" Taylor investigates Annie Blackburn's abduction by the crazed Windom Earle in the town of Twin Peaks, where Taylor's dreams only intensify. Taylor edges closer to the largest, oldest tree. She senses a presence among its highest branches, where the weak starlight of strange constellations is swallowed by the beckoning darkness. The darkness opens its eyes--flashing a simmering red, the only part of it revealed to Taylor. She stumbles backward and into consciousness, awaking at last in her room at the Great Northern.