Escape From Hotel Necro by Amy Cross

Author:Amy Cross [Cross, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-05T04:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Nine

She's screaming, or at least trying to scream. The gag muffles the sound, but she's struggling desperately as I start slowly closing a pair of metal shears against her left index finger. I watch as the blades start slicing through her skin, and then I feel the crunch of bone beneath.

This is all so... satisfying.

I hesitate, still wondering how all my empathy and compassion can be gone, and then I squeeze the handle tighter and watch as the top of her finger is sliced clean away.

Blood pours from the wound.

“So delicate,” Jason purrs, watching from nearby. “Don't you want to go crazy? Get a little frantic? I thought you'd want to really let rip.”

“I do,” I reply, as the girl strains every part of her body in a desperate attempt to escape from the chair, “but I want to build up to it. How old do you think she is, anyway?”

“She's twenty-two,” he tells me. “Pathetic, right? Begging and mugging people on the street like that. Call me crazy, but I have a feeling that society won't really miss her all that much. You could even argue that we're doing the world a favor.”

“I suppose you could,” I murmur, before setting the shears aside and looking at all the other devices on the bench.

“Maria Binotto,” he continues, reading from a sheet of paper. “The fine people at Hotel Necro managed to pull together quite a trove of information about her. I guess that kind of thing's easy when you've got allies and sources in the police and government.” He steps closer. “Twenty-two, like I said. Born and raised in a poor part of town, got a break when her grandmother died and left her enough money to get a proper education. She squandered all of that, however, and turned to drugs. Her parents threw her out, she ended up living on the streets and started racking up a series of petty criminal offenses. Some jail time here and there. Nothing about violent crimes, but I guess she must have finally become too desperate.” He looks over at the girl. “Is that right, Maria? Did you fall in with an even worse crowd?”

As I stare at the assorted saws, clamps, knives and other torture devices, I feel a curious lack of empathy for the girl. Even the other day, when she mugged me, I felt a sliver of compassion, but that's all gone now. No doubt this is caused by the various pills in my system, but it's still odd to be so aware of this hollowness in my heart. And yet, at the same time, I'm still me. It's just that my empathetic, caring side has been suppressed to the point that it's now just the tiniest, faintest scream in the back of my mind.

“She's been whoring herself about, too,” Jason says as he comes over and sets the sheet of paper down. “She's not worth giving a damn about, Katie. The world will definitely be better off without her. What are you going to do to her next?”

“Are you insane?” I imagine myself screaming.

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