#dawn:threads

She should have known better, Ria was far more intune with the house than she was and there had been nothing to prevent the young girl from sneaking into the room and standing next to the bed, peering at the man curiously and silently.

She stood at the entrance to the place, a young child clinging to her leg and staring up at her, trembling. “Um...Peri told me to come here? She...she said it was safe?”

“I would rather die than go back. My parents would either make me kill Ria or force me watch them torture her to death and I refuse to put a child through that.”

“I don’t care what the job is, I got out of that line of work. Consider me retired.”