Edge of End by Suren Hakobyan

Author:Suren Hakobyan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: horror, mystery, god, hell, fantasy, supernatural, devil, monster, afterlife, survivial

Chapter twelve: An inch from nothingness

Fading whispers, floating puffs of cloud-like meandering ghosts, dingy air.

I found myself in a strange place. With one single step I had moved into another space totally far away from the mist, flying demons and vicious guard dogs.

I was in a cubicle. A door to my left led into a larger room, and the narrow corridor that lay in front of me ended in dingy darkness. Those awful sounds from outside still managed to creep in through the door that stood slightly ajar.

Petrified I watched with great interest the foggy wisps swarming over me.

Were they ghosts? Should I be afraid? I was hypnotized; I raised my hand slowly into the air to reach one of the white clouds bobbing up and down in front of me, but I was quickly stopped in my tracks.

“Don’t touch anything you don’t know anything about,” Malcolm’s gruff voice came from behind. As he spoke, I quickly lowered my hand and peered back at him.

Standing in the doorway, the old man surveyed the gloomily lit room with his single eye. I hadn’t thought that Malcolm would follow me in. Fear had been evident in his eye when I had darted into the house.

“You’re like a baby reaching for any new thing it sees,” he added flippantly.

“What are they?” I was curious. The door slammed shut alone silencing the moaning sounds from outside.

“Only hell knows. Beautiful, yes? Every house is different, as is the evil dwelling in them.”

“What kind of evil lives in your house?” I asked with a jolt of surprise in my voice. “How did you get out?”

“My house must remain only in my memories,” he pointed to his own head. “It must leave this town with me.” He sighed and glanced at the large room that was on my left.

“You played that monster’s game in the other houses,” I remembered. “You’ve been in a lot of them, haven’t you?”

“We went into the ones that stand at the beginning of the town. There the residents are weak, and the evil didn’t require strong power to keep them imprisoned–we could break in and out of the places much easier.”

“But you did break into a powerful one, didn’t you?”

His eye widened. There was great fear in his expression. It had just been a supposition, a simple guess that he had done so, but I was right, obviously.

“Yes, we tried once,” he muttered and then paused for a moment. “We didn’t have a clue about the strong evil that resided there. You have to understand Jonathan; every resident in this hell hole is at its strongest in its own house, on its own property. We met an invincible power inside.”

“That’s where you had your–” I tightened my fists, it just happened naturally especially when I felt apprehension or fear. I indicated the soiled rag he had wrapped around the right side of his face.

“We had better get on with the search for your girlfriend.” He changed the subject sounding displeased. “Which way do you think she went?”

I could only guess.

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