"Can't run from the shadows." River's voice returned to the conversation, seemingly out of nowhere as she'd just been busy setting the table seconds ago. Her gaze seemed far away from a second. She was always looking at things that other people couldn't see. Sometimes she wondered if they were real, if the shadows were even real... "Can't hide from shadows. Locked doors won't keep them away, and the sword won't cut them."
As if the eerie words she'd just said hadn't come from her own mouth, the girl smiled at her brother, moving to flick him lightly in the nose as though she hadn't just been acting exceptionally creepy.