Searching in the Dark

~Raina~

3 AM.

I knew the time before I looked at my phone because 3 AM had its own specific quality in this apartment, the particular depth of quiet, the way the city noise reduced to almost nothing without quite reaching silence, and the way the darkness sat differently than at midnight or 2 AM. I had been awake at 3 AM enough times to know it by feel.

I got up. No point lying there. I had been c