A child stands outside her lamplit home and imagines the lives of many night creatures as they move silently in the unseen, half-sensed world of the darkness.
After the destruction of the English colony on Roanoke Island by hostile Indians forces the survivors to live with a friendly tribe, Virginia Dare finds her first love coming to a tragic and supernatural end.
Wishing she were taller and faster, like her big brother Peter, Heather plays hide-and seek with him and his friends and demonstrates how good she is at hiding.