There are some moments you'd rather sleep through, pass from point A to point B without awareness of the time passing or the events that carry you from present to future. And it's mostly those moments in which it's smarter-safer- to stay awake.

They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all. Some people can't be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won't break.

The Waking Dark is about what happens when something awakens a towns darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.

Don't go looking in dark places, because dark things live there.

Full Disclosure: I hate David with the passion of a thousand fiery suns all going to supernova at the same time

You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.

Not that my arms are getting tired or anything, but... how much longer is the hugging phase going to last?