It wasn't the darkness that scared her. She was comfortable with the dark. She had learned a long time ago that if she couldn't see anybody, nobody could see her.
She crouched low, rocking back and forth, and crooned silently to herself. "It's all right, baby. Nobody's going to hurt you. Daddy will be back soon. He promised."
Suddenly it came to her. It was the stillness that was frightening.
Nobody running. Nobody screaming. Nobody breathing.
She stretched out her arms, trying to feel the presence that she knew should be there. She jerked back, startled, as her hands touched something soft. Hair, she realized. It was hair. She reached out again and discovered the eyes, the nose, the mouth. It was a head. Just a head.
No body.
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