When the Sky Darkens

"Skinwalkers will look nothing like you and me, child, they are soulless. Do you know how to see if one is a skinwalker?"

"Well now, I must tell you. Their eyes are wide and bright even in the daylight,"

"They will steal your skin just by peering into your eyes, anytime they do so the skinwalkers' body would begin to harden nothing would break the skin. No arrows, no bullets, their body is indestructible. Their tongue would be blackened from not having a soul and they would have no private parts."

My child-like self would gasp only to stick out my tongue to assure my grandmother I was not a skinwalker. "My darling, you have done nothing immoral to let the darkness come, you are as light as the sun, you have nothing to fear."