The Hole by Aaron Ross Powell

Author:Aaron Ross Powell [Powell, Aaron Ross]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-11-23T10:55:02+00:00

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The dog had a can of tuna fish as well, and enjoyed it immensely.

After they’d eaten and prepared for bed as best they could-Evajean complaining about the lack of running water-they each took one of the two twins, crawled under the covers against the September chill, and tried to go to sleep.

But it didn’t happen, not immediately. Elliot’s mind just couldn’t shut down. It kept racing around what’d happened in the early hours of the morning, the display Evajean had put on in the circle.

“You’re thinking about it,” she said, startling him.

“Yeah.” His stared at the ceiling. “I am.” He didn’t think he was tossing or making any noise, but he apologized anyway. “I’m sorry, am I keeping you up?”

“Oh, no,” she said. “No, it’s not you. It’s just, I can’t sleep either. Because I’m thinking about it, too.”

“You don’t remember it.”

“No,” she said, “I don’t. But I know what you told me and there’s this feeling in the back of my head, like I could remember if I really wanted to. Thing is, I don’t. What you told me is enough. It’s plenty. Remembering it, if what you said is true-and I believe you, it’s not that-but if what you told me is true, it’d all be too much, you know?”

“Yes,” Elliot said.

He heard her roll over. The dog jumped off her bed then immediately back on.

“But I want to know if it’s going to happen again,” she said.

Elliot was quiet.

“I want to know if I’m going to go crazy and hurt someone. Hurt you.”

“I won’t let you,” he said.

“Go crazy?”

“That, or hurt anyone. I won’t let it happen.”

“You couldn’t stop it before,” Evajean said. “When I killed all those people.”

Elliot rolled onto his side to face her bed. He still couldn’t see her well in the dark, just a shape, but he knew she was looking at him, too. “We don’t know what happened, back there. You might not have killed them. We don’t know. It could’ve been that thing. The box.”

Evajean had taken it when them, in the pocket of her jacket. Elliot didn’t know where it was now but he bet it was still close by.

He heard her sigh. “Elliot, I’m just scared. That’s all. I’m scared. It’s like things aren’t the way they’re supposed to be.” He started to respond but she cut him off. “I’m not talking about everyone being dead, being gone. What I mean is there’s things happening that don’t make any sense. Like what we saw in the cave, those shapes around Jeffry and everyone else. And what you say happened after we escaped. It’s not natural, Elliot. It’s not what we know how to, I guess, how to make sense of.”

“I know,” Elliot said.

“What do you think it is?” she asked.

“I’ve been trying to figure that out. And I don’t have any answers, not even good guesses. But I have questions and I’ve been thinking, if we have enough questions and they’re all related, they’re all good questions, then maybe they’ll fit together and we’ll have to get some answers.

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