The Cruel Dark

by Bea Northwick

“If I catch you wandering again,” he said, his voice taking on the low quality of a warning, “I may think you mean to tempt me.”

To be favored is a worthwhile danger because it means that among the masses of mortal life, we’ve been singled out and are, in some way, special. That’s what most of us want, isn’t it? To not feel so small and inconsequential in this vast world.”