The main door swung gently on its hinges behind her.
From back, cold wind, flowing make Esti hair swril, She was standing, She truned, face the wind, and the chill hit her straight on. The night air rushed past her.
Moon which was covered by clouds, is come visible, light move to touch the ground.
Make disappears, The intense darkness.
Esti was still standing, She truned at the way where's light should come from.
At moon. A beautiful, dark shade of navy blue, Moon, visible on the sky.
Until, a voice come, without any warning.
"Esti, what are you doing?... outside of the house, in the night."
Esti's heart violently slammed against her ribs.
She snapped her head around.Standing under the sickly glow of the porch light was her mother.
Her mom was wrapped in a faded robe, her arms crossed, looking at Esti with a mixture of exhaustion and suspicion.
The terrifying supernatural tension evaporated, replaced by a cold spike of panic."Mom,"
Esti managed to say, her voice sounding thin even to her own ears."I asked you a question," her mother repeated,
her eyes narrowing as she stepped closer to the threshold. "Why are you standing out here in the freezing cold? And why is the front door wide open?
"Esti looked past her mother's shoulder, back into the dark hallway.
Then she looked back up at the sky.The navy blue moon was still bleeding its strange, dark light onto the grass.Can she not see it? Esti thought, a cold sweat breaking out on the back of her neck.
Can she not smell the ozone in the air?If her mother hadn't seen the car leave, and hadn't heard the four calm knocks... then who—or what—had actually been standing at Esti's bedroom door?"I... I thought I heard a cat,"
Esti lied, her mind scrambling for an excuse.Her mother sighed heavily, rubbing her temples. "Get inside.
Now. Before you catch your death."Her mom turned around and walked back into the house.
But as Esti stepped over the threshold to follow her, she froze.
There, right on the floorboard where her mother had just been standing, was a single, wet smudge.
It wasn't water from the rain.It was a perfect, dark blue stain that glowed faintly under the light of the navy moon. Hy