The television news upset me. I thought back to simpler times, like the time I had ice-skated while trying to rescue two stranded polar bear cubs. Or the time I had joined a group science fair presentation because the group was down a person, even though I had no idea what the project even was.

But then, I was in a cave…and the stalactites were gooey tongues, reaching down from the ceiling…and everyone around me was taken.