DEREK:
“Why aren't we going toward the cottage? I thought you already said it's the place we need to be,” Caleb announces impatiently while I keep staring at the building a little distance away from where the three of us are standing in our human forms.
As I prepare to respond to his inquiry, the events of the last time I was here flash through my mind. It was the reason I have been skeptical about walking toward the cottage. I was trying to avoid a repeat of that. It made no sense to be that vulnerable right inside an unknown location.
“Because you don't know what awaits us there,” is what I finally say to Caleb, my eyes still fixated on the cottage that stood lonely.
“Can you clarify that, please?”
“Getting close to the cottage, the door precisely, has its own repercussions. Perhaps
