Easy for them to say. His apartment was three blocks from her left foot.
“You’re safe now,” she cooed. “Base.” giant girl games
“Now you hide,” she commanded the empty cars. Easy for them to say
It was the strangest game of hide-and-seek ever played. Leo hadn’t signed up for it. No one had. She’d just… appeared last Tuesday, a new constellation in their sky, and decided the entire valley was her dollhouse. a new constellation in their sky
One man, a baker from the corner of 5th, ran. He broke cover, sprinting across the open concrete of the high school parking lot. A terrible mistake.