He tried to stay still. "Stay still," he instructed. It was critical for the Onthera to follow his lead and to remain motionless. If they picked up on movement coming from inside the bar, they would knock on his door and question him. It had happened before, and it would happen again. And he could only use the excuse of a bad power outage so many times before they got truly suspicious of his activities.
And so, in the darkness, they waited.
And so, in the darkness, they waited.