Excerpt from ALL THAT IS LEFT There was only darkness around her. Misha had never been afraid of the dark. As a child she had always insisted that a game of hide and seek be played with the lights out whereas the other girls her age would deem the game as too frightening, especially when played in an abandoned house. In all of her seventeen years, Misha had never been afraid of anything, but waking up in pitch black when she was supposed to be home and in the safety of her room, was starting to unnerve her. She swallowed and blinked, hoping she would get used to her surroundings and figure out where she was. The last thing she remembered was walking out of the school gates, and searching for her boyfriend. She had asked his friends where he was and received hesitant replies. She noticed how they averted their eyes and the way they walked away while mumbling a feeble 'he must be around here, somewhere'. She should have known then and there that they were all part of the dece