CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Trudy was feeling fairly proud of herself as she walked from the library back to the dorm. It was about nine o’clock at night, just six weeks after the horrible night that had turned her final semester of college into a time of fear and dread. For many long days, she’d found it impossible to make a trip like this alone. Even now, although other students were out and about, she still found it frightening to be outside after dark.
Weeks had gone by since her counselor first suggested she do this kind of thing in order to conquer her fears. Since then she’d forced herself to make this nighttime walk many times, and she’d still felt terrified every time. She’d been wondering if her fear would ever go away.
Then she realized that tonight seemed different. At the moment, she
