Fire Claws
Yann Le Biannic
There are surprisingly few books on nyctophobia. The wise have always known that fear of the dark is too obvious for study. It is the dark, therefore certain things are hidden from view, and who in hell knows what those certain things might be, so therefore they are fearsome, as is the darkness which surrounds them.
There are fire claws in the dark.
Yet without the dark there would not be this moment of magic. In daylight a space is burdened with commonplace open-ness, a textbook of reality. Then night-time scatters that glitter of sparks, just as it teases at the twisting smoke. Darkness wrenches a distant shadowy figure into warped mystery and silhouettes a woman’s golden profile.
Without the dark we could not satisfactorily celebrate the fire claws.
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