OUTSIDE by Artyom Dereschuk

Author:Artyom Dereschuk [Dereschuk, Artyom]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-30T20:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12 – Attack

"Wake up! Yura, wake up!" - Natasha was shaking me, trying to get me to wake up.

"What? What's going on?" - I jumped to my feet, looking around. My gaze was instinctively attracted to the window, where I expected to see a multi-legged shadow. There was nothing there - the only thing out of the norm that I'd noticed was that the window was open, letting the cold air in. Natasha wasn't exactly whispering as she was talking to me, either. Which meant that she wasn't hiding from anything.

"Yura, it's… Oh my god, it's so terrible" - she couldn't put it into words. As I got up from the bed, she called me over to the window. "Take a look for yourself."

She must've seen something outside - something that had put her into such a worried state. I didn't know what it was, but I had a few guesses. Another victim? A trail of blood leading away from one of the windows? Some new, even more terrifying monstrosity which, unlike the rest, didn't hide in the shadows?

I got up from the bed and stood next to her, looking outside. Standing near the open window in nothing but my trunks and t-shirt wasn't exactly comfortable - the air outside was quite chilly. But if I decided to go put some clothes on, I risked missing something happening outside.

At first, I didn't see anything - the yard in front of the building which Natasha's windows overlooked seemed the same as the day before. It wasn't until I noticed something white waving in the wind a few floors below that I started putting together what was going on.

The object that I'd seen was a rope made out of bedsheets. Coming down from the second floor, it was shaking in the wind, coiling like a snake and rising as if it, too, wanted to leave the cursed building along with its creator.

"Someone's gotten out?" - I wondered. Natasha nodded, biting her lip: "An old man. He climbed down and ran toward the stores."

"What?" - I couldn't believe my ears. I knew that Natasha wouldn't lie, and I was confident that she didn't misunderstand the situation, but I was refusing to accept it. "Are you sure? Couldn't he get some food from his neighbors, or endure a bit? It hasn't been that long."

Natasha didn't have time to answer: somewhere in the distance, behind the trees, glass shattered. Judging by the rustling of glass shards that followed, the man had reached his destination and was climbing inside.

There was my answer.

"What an idiot," - I sighed, getting anxious. "He'll get himself killed."

How far did the expedition for the military base had gotten? A kilometer, two? There were a dozen people there, yet not a single one of them came back. What chances did one man have?

I glanced down: little by little, people were peeking out of their windows, curious about the origin of that sound. A few of them tried inquiring what was going on, but the rest of the tenants hushed them: they didn't want to miss a thing.

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