One moment of pain or curiosity not addressed can grow branches and become a staple in our minds for much longer than the thought warrants. Simply because she left the moment unexplored and unexamined, the moment lingers in the shadows of Nia's mind, threatening to expose itself at the c. The main character's fear of this exposure causes her to bury those moments in darker shadows. Had she taken the plunge to explore and uncover the disturbance in the first moment of concern, the night might have been peaceful.

That first unchecked disturbance became the seed of many imagined frights, all of which depended on Nia's fear of being alone in a dangerous place. Although she couldn't be any safer, her fears were nurtured to be more pronounced than the truth of her reality.