Eyes in the Shadows

Minka swallowed hard. Dakshana glanced at her and hoped that she’d been right in saving Srina, that Minka would be able to keep a level head in the coming challenge.

“Tell me,” she said softly, “and we can defeat it together.”

“You know how my mother always said to never go into the forest alone at night?”

Dakshana nodded even though she’d never heard Minka’s mother say a thing, never had her own mother there to offer such a warning, but being anywhere alone at night was - exhilarating. To Dakshana. Unless --

“It’s because eyes. In the shadows. Can see you.”