The Damned by Kirk Kilgrave

Author:Kirk Kilgrave [Kilgrave, Kirk]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-26T22:00:00+00:00

15

Ahead and to the right, a slit of light to the right flashed only to vanish a second later. The chill disappeared. So did the thickness in the air.

My foot bashed into something on the ground, and I stopped short of pitching forward.

A light flashed in the darkness.

I flinched and staggered backward, doing my best to reorient myself to my surroundings. Then I caught sight of what I’d bumped into.

Shadow’s body.

It lay on the ground, arms and legs strewn about at awkward angles. Catching sight of his head made my mouth shoot open, but a soundless scream died in my throat.

His chin nestled against the ground facing us, but his spine now fit in the space his chest had inhabited only moments ago. Someone had snapped his neck and twisted it around.

“Oh my God!” Midnight shouted from the other end of the room. He raced over to his friend and skidded next to the corpse, his mouth open wide and his eyes bulging as he took in the horrific scene before him. “Oh my God!” he repeated. He made fists and whirled around, looking in every direction, expecting an attack. “What happened?” With a feral glance around the room, he set a glare upon Dylan. “What did you see?”

Dylan tore his gaze away from Shadow. Even though he’d looked away, his lips were still peeled back in terror, as though his mind’s eye couldn’t avoid the image of seeing Shadow’s head wrenched around.

“Hey!” Midnight shouted. He leaped to his feet and jumped into Dylan’s face. “What did you see?”

Dylan just stared at him, impassive

Midnight ripped the camera from Dylan’s hands. He stuffed it in his belly, spun around, and darted for the corridor.

Nona stepped aside from it a half-second before Midnight would have otherwise plowed into her.

He grabbed the doorknob, twisted it, and opened it. He jumped out into the corridor.

I stared at the doorknob, shocked. A second later, I looked at Nona, who seemed just as disoriented as I felt. “Did you open it?”

She shook her head, speechless.

In the seconds after the light switched on until the moment we’d found Shadow’s body, someone had unlocked the door.

I hurried into the hallway with Eloise and Dylan on my heels.

Midnight ran about ten yards off to the left, halted, and put the camera to his eyes, surely checking the video Dylan had recorded. He watched in silence. Moments later, he wrapped a palm around his mouth.

When Nona and Eloise assembled beside me, I caught Dylan’s eye. “What did you see?”

“I don’t know.” He looked askance and shook his head, his facial muscles twitching. “I watched that form turn into a figure and then it just vanished into smoke.”

“Spirits can show up as a mass on video,” Eloise said.

“I don’t understand,” Midnight said before going silent. He cringed and bit into his palm so hard that blood seeped across it, yet he didn’t seem to notice. Then he looked up at Dylan and heaved for air. “You’re the only one who saw what happened, so what did this?”

“We both saw the same thing.

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