59. Something Lost

~ CARA ~

As the windows of the library began to turn dark, I sat back in my chair and sighed. I’d read the same paragraph five times and not a word of it was getting in.

I was stuck behind the desk because I was the only staff member on—there was some big sports game this evening and everyone was going. Only the most diligent students were in the library this evening, and they didn’t need me.

I’d barely slept, but was surprisingly alert. I’d hunted all night, driven forward into the shadowed trees, but clueless on what I was hunting. Every sound, every smell… it was like it called to my body. I couldn’t stop. But eventually the sun had risen and I’d returned to my room, tired and frustrated.

When I woke just before lunch,