This morning's prompt was 'empty box'.

"What's in the baaaax?" Brenda asked and then when Ben didn't answer, she said, "Wait, it's not?"

"It's not," Ben said quickly and turned the box to show her. "It's empty... except for the blood."

"A head doesn't crawl away..."

"Nor does an arm or a leg, but what if it's something small?"

"But this doesn't affect anything besides humans..." She squatted and picked up a little blue and pink blanket. "Oh dear God."

"Yeah, but we have to find it, now, and it could be anywhere."

"I thought you didn't think we had to quiet the whole population?"

"This is different."

"Is it? Or are you coming around to my point of view?"

Ben sighed. "Maybe." He looked at Brenda and held her gaze. "Are you still thinking about..."

"If you want to discuss it, maybe you should say the words?"

Ben shuddered. "Nope."