Countdown to Chaos

Julia & Alan — Alternating POV

Julia

The darkness in the apartment wasn't natural.

I had been in dark rooms before. Had sat in the particular darkness of a sleeping building at three in the morning, had navigated rooms by memory, had learned in the weeks inside the Bennett estate to move through spaces without adequate light. I knew the difference between a room that was dark and a room that had been made dark.

This was the second kind.

The lights had gone out with the specific completeness