Never Let Go
The intrusion had been coated with a dreamlike, almost hallucinogenic veneer. Now that the sun was up it seemed as though it had never happened at all, as if the entire episode had been imagined. Harlan, in particular, was having trouble sorting through and accepting what the elderly man had told him. It was not just that his life had been threatened when he was a child and that his family had, in fact, made the connection that he thought they had missed, it was the suggestion that there was a flaw in his theory. An oversight that, potentially, could cost them dearly.