Nightfall

"You think you came here for help, in a normal small town or village in the middle of nowhere, with normal people and with normal lives, right?" he said above a whisper, almost smiling. "That's what everyone should think."
"And what if they don't. What if they find out that one secret you guys are hiding?" I asked eagerly. His expression changed to a blank stare.
"You don't want that," he said. "Unless, you consider in staying here forever," he paused and frowned a bit. "Or become one of us."
I'm leaving in a couple of months, but I didn't tell him that.