In the Belly of the Beast and Other Tales of Cthulhu Wars by Ben Monroe

Author:Ben Monroe [Monroe, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780999539033
Publisher: Petersen Games
Published: 2018-09-10T07:00:00+00:00

Soon, everyone was up to speed. Kris and Damian explained they’d gone out to check on the propane tanks, which had turned out to be close to full. Gina and Miguel relayed their experience in the morgue, and Gina tried to explain what she’d seen under the microscope.

“How long had those bodies been there?” Damian asked. “I mean, I assume they didn’t just get up and walk out on their own, so it’d be great if we had a rough idea of when they’d disappeared.”

There was an uncomfortable silence. “Let’s not assume anything…” Kris said.

“I don’t want to stretch credulity too far,” Gina added. “But I’m concerned that someone or something took the bodies out of the morgue.” Her finger was itching more now. She was rubbing the bandage with her thumbnail, but her knuckle no longer expressed any feeling at all. It was numbing to external sensation under the plastic, but still itched deep within.

Miguel sat up straight at that, shocked. “The outer doors!” he said. “They were unlocked when we got there. I could just swing them right open.”

“Okay, so that’s something we didn’t know before,” Kris added. “So we can assume anyway that something pulled the corpses out. Any predator, anything looking for food. Coyotes, mountain lions, what sort of critters do they have up here, anyway?” She looked around the table at her companions. “Anyone have any ideas?”

“Sure,” Gina said. “All the above. Bears, wolves, anything, really. They keep to themselves, but none of that is unheard of. But, could be anything. There’s strange stuff in the woods…”

“And then this fuzz, the glowing stuff,” Miguel added. “That stuff was just weird.”

Gina’s finger was itching like mad. She peeled the bandage away and scratched at the cut with her thumbnail. “I have to agree with you,” she said. “It seemed like a mineral, like a fibrous glass or crystal, but growing and interweaving with itself. I mean, minerals can grow like that, but in response to immense pressure, heat. Lots of outside influence. And not that fast. This growth looked organic. They were duplicating and expanding like biological cells.” She paused, looking around the table at her companions. “I don’t get it.”

“So I have to wonder,” Damian said. “How safe are we here? First something attacked the truck. And we find out something rampaged through the morgue. Maybe even the same something.”

“Until this morning,” Gina said, “I’d have told you we were safe here. Now, I don’t know.” She was scraping at her finger now. She mulled over the events of the day, the ongoing conversation with the group, and her eyes traveled down to rest on her hand. The cut was still small, a hair less than a centimeter long, but thin fibers twitched along the edges, glowing with a soft, pale blue-white light. Gina’s breath caught in her throat, and she felt her heart pounding in her chest. The glow began in the area of the cut, but she could see it faintly below the surface of her finger, surrounding the wound, and threading out under her fingernail.

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