Please, Be Safe

LAYLA.

I had been too tired and I had been thinking too much. The cottage's silence envelopes me like a blanket as I sit up and stretch the kinks out of my back. I was at peace for the first time since I had gotten Del Morino's mothers pack.

Though not much it was something. Something that made me temporarily forget the pressures of the outside world. I was beginning to breathe more easily and the tension I felt the previous day was gone

I heard footsteps outside the door ...