Nadia was quick to run towards the cupboard where her uncle said she could find the vault. Agad niya itong nabuksan at hindi na siya nagsayang ng oras. She ran down the basement. Tears blurred her vision.
Her uncle Zach is dead. She saw how light left his eyes. There was some sense of urgency inside of her that had suddenly awakened. As she made her way downstairs, the stories she heard from her friends came back to her. Naalala niya ang mga karumal-dumal na kwento. In that very moment, the stories seemed real. More real than she wanted it to be.
Naalala niya ang sinabi ng kanyang tiyuhin bago ito binawian ng buhay. Na maaaring makapasok na ang lalaki kanina sa bahay nila. Her uncle had warned her not to let strangers in and that stranger she saw earlier was definitely someone who shou
