Night Crawlers

When you think you are safe, that's when you are wrong.

Leala was a struggling youth doing her best to help her parents. They were simple people who lived by the sea. One could say that they are less fortunate but is a picture of a happy family.

A fisherman's life was what Rowan always had to support his wife and daughter. He risked his life to sail on all weathers, despite all the trouble he was happy to be home at their tiny hut.

Aina was snubbed and neglected after she chose to marry a humble fisherman. But when she gave birth to Leala, she had never been any happier.

Everything changed one night when the night crawlers came.

This is a work of fiction. The names of characters and similarities of events are pure coincidence. The idea came to me in a dream. I couldn't shake the memory away, so I wrote it down.