Children of the Night

The schoolteacher looked around her in this stretch of abandoned parkland, this peculiar hidden valley, where she had been led by the naked children running before her. Like an instant stinging rash, goose-flesh prickled the woman's body, head to toe, for now she could actually see and count five children; all graceful and strong, all shaggy-haired, wet, inexplicably naked; and all-what?-drugged, mad, possessed, rabid? No word would suffice, no word explain. Why had they lured her here! What did they want to do with her? "No, children. No-please...!"