Welcome to Oakhaven

The violent shaking of the cabin finally began to subside as the pilot steadied the aircraft, but the damage to our conversation was already done. Gideon's brief, fragile glimpse of vulnerability vanished as quickly as it had appeared, swallowed up entirely by the jarring turbulence.

"We'll get through this quickly," he said, his voice entirely devoid of the raw emotion I had just witnessed. He