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It’s not the same if the threat knows it doesn’t have to hide, but can make its move

Useless to pretend the darkness isn’t any different

It’s different

Did so bad happen to you in the dark, Sam? They alanted to know Because they assu or a place An event Cause and effect Like fear was part of an algebra equation

No, no, no, so not getting the point of fear Because fear wasn’t about what s that happened Things that ht be there Murderers Mad just a few inches from him, able to see hih silently at hiht in his face and he wouldn’t be able to see

The threat could be Right Here

His legs already ached fro and it was below hialaxy So very far away

He couldn’t look back for long because the possibilities were all around hiht of day showed you the lih the dark, the absolute, total darkness, and the possibilities were li a Saht that revealed stones A stick A dried-out bush

It was al just hts were also a sort of bread-crumb trail, like Hansel and Gretel He would be able to find his way home

Hopefully as well, he’d be able to see whether he was veering left or right

But the lights had one other effect: they would be seen by whatever else was out here

In the land of the blind the one-eyeda candle is a target

Saht everyone into the plaza with grilled fish The fire still burned, but lower and lower

Lana had healed all who needed it

For now there was quiet

Kids had broken into Albert’s place and cohts and batteries Quinn had quickly confiscated theold, far ht of a single flashlight and a number of crowbars to tear apart the pews in the church and bring the Not yet

The orange-red glow cast a faint, flickering wash of color on the li-abandoned McDonald’s, on the broken fountain On gri away simply disappeared The rest of the toas invisible The ocean, occasionally faintly audible over the sound of snapping wood and ht as well be a myth