Shadow In The Night

I stood in the doorway of Theo and Chloe’s room. After much struggle, they finally fell asleep. It seemed that they were definitely traumatized from their kidnapping, and I would need to help coax them back to being themselves.

While I sang them to sleep, Chloe talked quietly about the nightmares she was continuing to have about a strange, scary man with hollow black eyes. He seemed to tell her that he would take revenge on me. Despite my telling her that it was simply a dream, she seemed convinced that it was all real.

As she did that, Theo grumbled about the darkness. I didn’t know what was going on with them, but I needed to get to the bottom of it.

Turning, I headed down the