“This is a bad idea,” Dustin said for what seemed to be the nineteen-hundredth since they’d woken. He stared out the window of the cab at the freakishly beautiful, intensely terrifying building wherein was housed the creature known as his mother. “You just have no idea…what she’s like…” Nicolae patted the back of his hand absentmindedly and fumbled for the door handle. “I will assume that we’re here?”
Dustin sighed dramatically. “Yes. Damn it. Stay there. I’ll come around.
“Nicolae was already standing outside the door by the time Dustin paid the driver and met him on the other side. “Nicu, please,” he hissed. “Stay close. These people are—”
“Sad.” Nicolae said pensively, staring sightless at the building. “Sad and lonely.”
“Crazy,” Dustin corrected. Nicolae shrugged. “Is there a diffe
