The night has been around for a very long time.
It was here before the first tree grew. Before the first fish swam. Before the first human looked up and gave the stars their names.
In all that time, the night has paid attention.
It knows that most fears are smaller in the morning.
It knows that the house settles and creaks not because something is wrong, but because wood breathes.
It knows that silence is not the same as emptiness — the night is full of heartbeats and breathing and the hum of the earth itself.
It knows that children who can't sleep often need nothing more than to know that someone is keeping watch.
Someone is.
The night has watched over ten billion sleeping people and every one of them woke up again.
It has watched over floods and fires and the coldest winters, and morning has always come.
This is what the night knows.
You are safe. You are held. You are not alone in the dark.
Morning is already on its way.
Sleep now. The night is keeping watch.