Hear something down the hall, grab a weapon, anything can be used as a weapon. Get cameras, lock doors and windows, sleep next to the back door, but first, making sure everyone is okay.

But the number one rule: Never scream.

There’s no point to it anyway, it’s just that so many people do it for no reason. Yes, it can be scary that people or creatures are after you, trying to kill you or take you...

“I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all.” It was my new anthem. Everything, with a single touch would die, the life would get sucked out of their body and transferred to me. My little sister, four years younger, lays dead on the floor, because I thought it had worked. A new form of technology that would allow me to hug my sister, to high-five her.

I have nothing left to liv...

Accepting the challenge the shadow tempts, I begin to open the old, wooden chest. The iron latches echo a satisfying click that bounce off the padded attic walls. It takes some of my strength to pray the chest open, but it opens. Well, the lid falls off and lands on the very dusty bed. The first thing I see is a note, a very formal looking note.

Alice,

You are in danger. Hold on to this wor...