Lupine Howl: The Complete First Series (All 8 books) by Cross Amy

Author:Cross, Amy [Cross, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Dark Season Books
Published: 2012-04-21T16:00:00+00:00

8

"Isn't it beautiful?" Darla says, walking around behind it.

"No," I say, stepping a little closer but still feeling nauseous.

"It is," she says. "It really is. It's like... nothing I've ever seen before".

I get as close as I dare. "Be careful," I say. "It might be dangerous".

"What's it going to do?" she asks, smiling. "Bite me to death?"

"I'm not -" I start to say, but I stop as I realise that it has started to slowly open its mouth, with a thin film of gum between its lips suggesting this is something it hasn't done for quote a while.

It's a head. A human head, suspended in the middle of the room. But it's not just a head. For one thing, there are no eyes: where the eyes should be, there's a large cable coming out of each socket, winding its way up to the ceiling. Also, the back of the head has been split open, the skull pulled away, and the most amazing series of wires is coming out from the brain and running to the walls, disappearing into sockets. Finally, a thick, heavy-looking cable runs out from the bottom of the skull and connects to the floor. The whole head is just suspended like this.

It looks to be an oldish man, maybe in his 50s or even 60s. The whole set-up looks very clean, very medical, as if someone spent an obscene amount of money on this. And as I look over at the other side of the room, I spot something hanging on the wall. I walk over and realise that it's a human heart, suspended in a small box, with one of the wires from the back of the head running straight into the heart muscle itself.

"The heart beat," I say, staring at it.

Darla comes over and looks. "Beautiful," she says.

"I told you I heard a heartbeat in the walls of the building," I say. "I was right".

We go back over to the head. The mouth is still moving slightly.

"He's alive," Darla says. She looks at the cables that fan out from his exposed brain. "He's plugged into the whole building. He's..." She pauses, then she runs back through to the other room. I follow, and find her looking at the monitors. "Fuck," she says. "Look".

I take another look at the screens. All they contain is rows and rows of data, flashing past so fast it's impossible to read anything.

"Nervous system, organs, skin..." Darla says, able to read the data despite how fast it's moving. "This man's entire body is spread throughout the building. His blood is being pumped through the walls. His nervous system is part of the structure. It's like they've expanded his body to include the building as part of it".

"You have transgressed!" calls a voice from back in the other room.

Darla and I exchange a worried glance.

"You have transgressed!" the voice calls again.

We go back to the door.

"You have transgressed!" the head is saying, its voice sounding old and tired.

"If we've transgressed," Darla says, "what the hell have you done?"

"I am Franklin Blaum," the head says.

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