Incursion by Richard Turner

Author:Richard Turner [Turner, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

Inside the barracks, Freytag removed his heavy greatcoat and then sat down at the end of his cot. Reaching behind him, he grabbed a dirty cloth and began to wipe the snow from his rifle. Looking about the packed room, he could see the fear in the soldiers’ eyes. It was happening just like before. With a grin on his face, the imposter looked around the room, trying to pick his next victim. He needed to eat, and the soldiers needed to die or be so incapacitated that they couldn’t interfere when it came time for him to leave. He would have preferred to have hidden in the woods until help arrived, but the bitter cold outside was something he was not used to nor trained for. Besides, he had a ready available food source where he was. He knew that it was best to stay where he was for now.

A young soldier with jet-black hair walked over and then sat down on the cot next to Freytag. He held an unlit cigarette in his shaking hand. The soldier was so scared that he had forgotten to light it. “What the fuck happened out there?” asked the soldier.

“Zabel and I heard a noise and went to investigate,” said the imposter. “I don’t know how, but we got separated in the dark and when I found him, Zabel was already dead.”

“Didn’t you see or hear anything?”

“No, not a thing, it was as if the partisans were ghosts. I think they can come and go as they please.”

“Fucking hell,” muttered the soldier. “Do you think they are coming after us for our attack upon their camp?”

Freytag shrugged his shoulders. “All I know is that whoever got in and out of this camp undetected first strangled and then gutted Zabel like a pig. His liver had been removed. It was horrible. His blood coated the snow all around his body. I’ll never forget the look of horror on poor old Zabel’s face. It was as if he had looked into the very eyes of the Devil himself.”

Placing his head between his hands, the soldier began to mumble incoherently to himself.

Seizing on the soldier’s growing fear, the imposter leant forward until he was inches away from the soldier’s ear, and whispered, “Between you and I, Sergeant Muller didn’t seem the slightest bit upset about Zabel’s death. In fact, he was there the instant I called for help. He must have been only yards away.”

The young soldier lifted his head, and looked over at Freytag, tears filled his eyes. “He does seem to be everywhere, doesn’t he?”

“He’s always around them.”

“Who?”

“The allied prisoners, that’s who. I’ve seen him talking to the American officer with respect, like he was one of our own.”

“You don’t think he made a deal with the allied prisoners…his life for all of ours?”

“I’m not saying anything. All I know is that Muller was close, too close if you ask me, when Zabel was brutally murdered.”

The door to the barracks opened and in stepped Sergeant Muller.

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