The Ghost Tree by Brandon Faircloth

Author:Brandon Faircloth [Faircloth, Brandon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-21T00:00:00+00:00

Part Two

911. What’s your emergency?

I…I just got this thing. This package. There was a fire or something at my building, and I was…

Sir, I need you to slow down for me, okay? Do you feel safe where you are right now?

Yes…I don’t know. I think so. I’m in my car.

Okay. That’s good. So take a breath for me and then try and tell me what’s going on.

I work at Corvair Limited. It’s in the Stern building on the twelfth floor. A little while ago the fire alarms went off, we had to go outside, and then we were told by the cops the office was closed. There’s some kind of investigation going on.

Yes, I’m pulling up dispatch logs and seeing that call went out earlier. Sir, if that’s the only reason you’re calling, then rest assured that…

No! Listen! Please…just listen. I started getting weird texts this morning saying I had a delivery coming. I hadn’t ordered anything. They kept getting weirder, kind of creepy. Then when we are all outside after the fire alarm, I find a package addressed to me. I open it up and there’s a camera in there. There’s video on it of what looks like someone being trapped in a room and burned alive. It looks like it happened on one of the floors of my office building.

That sounds very upsetting, sir. You say that you watched this video?

Yes. It was terrible, but yes.

And you think that this might have happened in your building?

I…I don’t know. Possibly.

What floor do you think it might have happened on? You know, if it did happen?

What? How would I know? Look, I didn’t have anything to do with this. I just got this video randomly and…

So you think that someone just randomly picked you out to send a video of them murdering someone?

How the fuck should I know? Look, I’m just trying to help catch the sick fucker that did this and…

Sir, I need you to remain calm. No need to be defensive. I’m here to help. Where are you at right now?

I…I’m in my car. Third floor of the parking deck we all use for work. It’s the closest one to the building.

Got it. Sending someone to you now. Just stay in your car with the doors locked for me, okay? And stay on the line.

Yeah, um, okay. Oh, maybe the tenth floor?

What about the tenth floor?

My friend Becky said she saw people from the tenth floor being pulled out of the crowd by the cops, so maybe if this video is from today, it happened on the tenth floor? But I mean the cops should already know where it happened, right?

Sure. But as you can imagine, it’s been a busy day for all of us.

Yeah sure. Are they almost here? I’ll be happy to give a statement and all, but I’m kind of freaked out. I want to be rid of this thing.

Rid of what thing? What are you trying to get rid of?

What? The camera. I don’t want to be near that disgusting thing.

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