C26 The Midnight Revelation

One night, as I lay wakeful, a noisy cry shattered the silence. The noise of people shouting and scuffling outdoors. My door jolted me upright. My coronary heart pounded in my chest as I strained to pay interest on what came to be taking location. The sounds grew louder, extra frantic, and I knew something big had become unfolding in reality past the partitions of my hidden room.

Moments later