Darkness is crawling toward Bitsy… Can she escape it?
“Shit,” Max’s voice rings around the small room.
I can feel my chest tightening and my heart beating too fast, it sounds like a whooshing in my ears. I don’t have many fears but the dark is one, and it has got worse since I found those things.
“You okay?” Max asks.
“No,” I whisper, crouching in a ball on the floor and hugging my knees to my chest.
“What’s wrong?” I can hear him moving around and searching for something on the shelves.
“The dark,” I whisper, and to my ears it sounds lame. I know there are only the two of us here, yet I’m petrified of what is going to happen, that something is going to reach out and grab me.
Max doesn’t say anything, but I can hear him moving away from me and pushing things around the shelves. Finally he gives a small shout and…
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