Sheriff Lindsay Gold had spent the day hiking with her son Dillon on their property. She wanted to show him that although strange things had happened where they lived, nothing was there now. She had hoped she would be so tired after spending the day in the woods that she would sleep through the night for the first time in a very long time, but it hadn’t worked.
She was now sitting on her front porch. It was a beautiful clear night and unusually warm since it was still technically winter and nearly sixty degrees at almost midnight. She had slept for a couple of hours before being awakened by another nightmare and unable to go back to sleep. She wished that her husband Wren was there with her, not that he could fix what was wrong, but he always made her feel better just by being there.
She
