Power Outage

Sitting here in the dark and in the ever increasing cold, listening to the rush of the wind outside, and KC nervously stammering away sentences that don't make any sense in order to prolong her stay downstairs where she can be in the pitch black with company, rather than in the pitch black of the upstairs without company.

"It's so dark, it's freaky." she says, snuggling up against me in the soft glow of the computer screen.

But just as she's beginning to settle in, and warm up to the possibility of extending her bedtime, somebody plugs our world back in.