The street was draped in the shades of the night. Shadows played games at the edges of the weak light cast by the sputtering street lamps. The only sounds on the street were the clatter of the woman’s shoes as she walked from one flickering yellow pool of light to the next, her shadow dancing with the its partners in the night.
Her thoughts were on other places, light and airy compared to the darkness of her surroundings. The flicker of a light caught her attention, breaking her from the daydream she had sunk into. Slowly she turned, sure in her mind that her eyes would catch a glimpse of something behind her.
Nothi