"Woh.  Woh."  Jim raised his hands and did a calm down motion.  "I don't either.  It was odd, and made me think of sand manipulation like in that anime Naruto, but with darkness.  Which is kind of weird since darkness isn't solid, or anything. It's just like of anything.  Which brings up the question, you felt it right?  I mean, it looked like you held it.  It's one thing to move the shadows but how did it get hard?"  

"Hey!  Let's not run into the danger."  He hurried up to keep pace with Rae.  "It can't hurt to scout around the area before we let those things know we're here right?"  He paused while they walked.  "Well, if whatever it was really needs help then maybe there's a limit to what it could do to help us like there was only so much time it was given to let us know what was going on, and it decided to use it on what it told us?"

They walked for a while before a strange sound called from a nearby alley. It was something like a desperate cry for help.  "Oh."  Jims wallwed hard.  "Please tell me that whatever that was was just in my head.  "