Inside the Asylum by Mary SanGiovanni

Author:Mary SanGiovanni
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2019-01-14T14:56:03+00:00

Chapter 9

It was almost 11:00 p.m. when the Wraiths and the little mechanical ones were called back to the hospital. They could forget for now about retrieving the human George Evers and the other two who had gotten away. The mists silently called to each other and to the little ones, who had found myriad items from aluminum cans to skateboards to umbrellas and were delightedly trying them on.

They found the Viper waiting at the hospital gates. He motioned for them to follow him. As they crossed the large front lawn, they were joined by more of their kind from every corner of the property, and finally, by the Others, led by Orrin and Edgar.

The Viper led them all to the front door.

“It’s time,” he said, and then gave a nod.

The creatures of Ayteilu swarmed past him and into the hospital. When Orrin and Edgar moved to follow, the Viper held up his hands.

“The ones on their way here must be dealt with. They will try to stop us.”

“Who are they?” Orrin asked.

“Your brother knows,” Viper replied. From the corner of his eye, he could see Edgar tugging on his older brother’s sleeve, his one eye searching Viper’s face uneasily. He would not find what he was looking for.

“Humans,” Edgar said. “They know. About us, I mean.”

Orrin shrugged. “Well, shit. Let’s go kill us some humans.”

* * * *

Inside the hospital, curled into a fetal position on his bed, Henry dreamed he was in a car, but he wasn’t driving. The Viper was, and Maisie, Orrin, and Edgar were in the back seat. Outside the windows, the trees blurred as they sped down a highway toward sunrise.

“Where are we going?” Henry asked.

“We’re going home,” Maisie replied.

“We’re going to Ayteilu,” Orrin said.

“You’re c-coming with us,” Edgar said.

Henry couldn’t remember the accident that had caused the coma, but the conversation had a vague hint of familiarity to it of a real-life car ride from long ago. He had taken such trips with his friends many times before, and he seldom drove, though the doctors told him when he’d finally woken up that the day of the accident, it appeared he’d driven his car into a tree. He was lucky, the doctors said, that he hadn’t been killed. He was lucky he had only ended up in a dreamless coma for three weeks. He couldn’t remember any of that. He did remember the blood all over his kitchen and basement, and Maisie telling him everything would be okay, and the Viper wiping blood off his own cheek and telling them to get in Henry’s car, that he would drive. The rest was lost to him. The time after he’d first awoken was a blur, too. Cops asking questions, pre-trial and arraignment, sessions with Dr. Pam Ulster. He didn’t have Ayteilu to escape to then, because he’d brought his friends over from there. Maisie said that he’d spent his time in the coma there, and now it was time to come back.

Henry was losing time, and he was scared.

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