Rain Of Stone (The Merryweather Chronicles Book 1) by Lesley Woodral

Author:Lesley Woodral [Woodral, Lesley]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Lesley Wayne Woodral
Published: 2014-12-16T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

Tina was riding her skateboard across the cracked and uneven pavement of the old mill’s parking lot when she first heard the sound. It came from the larger of the two empty silos. A low keening moan, like an animal in pain. But, to Tina, the sound was eerily human.

Tina was alone, as she almost always was, and skating across the litter strewn lot with no particular thing on her mind. Except, maybe, trying to slide down the handrail flanking the steps that led to the abandoned work building. She had never grinded anything that tall before and was feeling brave.

When she heard the noise, the low moaning sound, Tina changed course, rolling over toward the silo. She didn’t feel any sense of foreboding as she moved toward her impending death.

She was curious. And a little worried. The doors to those silos were welded shut, but that didn’t mean that some stupid kid couldn’t find a way to get stuck inside. Kicking her board up and carrying it in her right hand, Tina stepped through the overgrown grass and approached the silo on the door side. The ladder (The same one that Brandon and Claire used to climb to the top of the silo) was on the other side of the bin, out of Tina’s sight.

She moved carefully, not wanting to make any noise as she approached the faint sounds coming from inside the rusted piece of hollow steel. The sounds were strange. Low moaning and something that sounded like growling. Was it a person or an animal? She reached the door, noticing that the welds that normally held it closed had popped, and stopped. Though the welds were broken, the door was closed tight. It didn’t have a handle. Instead, it had a wheel that you turned to close and seal the door. Tina leaned her skateboard against the silo and touched the wheel. The sounds intensified and she thought that she heard her name, whispered somewhere amid the cacophony. “Is there somebody in there?” She asked, trying to keep the sound of her fear out of her voice. The sounds from inside the silo stopped dead. Tina frowned and said. “Hello? Is there anybody there?”

From somewhere inside the silo, she heard a low, long moan and two words.

“Help…us…”

Tina leaned close to the door, pressing her ear against the cold steel, and listened as hard as she could. She spoke to who was inside. “How did you get in there? Are you trapped? Are you hurt?”

She spoke so softly, almost a whisper, that she didn’t think she would get an answer. But one came. A voice that sounded like a child’s. “Yes…”

Though Tina was friends with Claire, she had never met Brandon Merryweather. Or his uncle. She was in the cafeteria the day that Brandon and the Kruegers fought in the bathroom. She got to watch Brandon take his bow. She decided, right there, that Brandon Merryweather was the coolest guy she’d ever seen. She’d not had the opportunity to talk to him, though, and she would never get the chance.

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