The Sullivan Gray Series Box Set by H P Bayne

Author:H P Bayne [Bayne, H P]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781999147532
Publisher: Bayne Independent Publishing
Published: 2019-11-01T22:00:00+00:00

8

The room was lit by a bare lightbulb, coated in a layer of dust and dangling on a frayed wire from the ceiling.

That was the first sight to greet Sully as he slivered his eyes open and struggled to reconnect his brain with his physical senses.

The second, of course, was her.

The Purple Girl stood at the end of the thin mattress upon which he was lying, her eyes fixed on his with tearless sorrow. If possible, she seemed even bloodier, her white nightgown dyed a deep red along one shoulder and down past her left breast, her arm beneath her capped sleeve shiny with the stuff. While he’d never known her to change in appearance with the lighting of a room, she seemed to him to be half in shadow so that he didn’t know whether it was a result of the blood blackening swaths of her hair or something more.

Because it seemed to him as he watched her that she was fading, the white of her skin and the nightgown turning to grey in the dark. But the feeling of her, that palpable state of terror that seemed to make up the core of her presence, remained strong around him.

He didn’t need the added dread. Though her image was unsettling to say the least, he had decided some time ago he would be better off emotionally with seeing rather than feeling her.

Keeping her in his peripheral vision, he took a moment to scan his surroundings as he pushed himself to sitting. His head throbbed and reeled with the effort and he recalled the injection he’d been given. The memory sent him into a panicked tailspin, had him up off the mattress fast. Too fast. He braced himself against a wall as he fought the wave of dizziness. He couldn’t name the drug, but he could name the feeling, recalled it taking him down countless times as he sought escape or struggled to save himself from another of their experiments. Always he would awaken to the cold, blue room, the tension of the restraints and the knowledge of what was to come. And while he didn’t believe he was truly mentally ill, not like some of the others, there were many times he knew they were trying hard to drive him there.

There were other drugs, in particular the one they gave him before each visit with Dez or anyone else in his family, the one that left him a zombie. It was like seeing his family through a dense fog, like being bound and gagged as they chattered on around him. He doubted they knew it, but their visits had kept him balanced on a tightrope of sanity when everything else around him was crumbling into that black chasm Gerhardt and his minions had dug out beneath him.

This wasn’t that blue room, and he wasn’t restrained, which he tried to take as some comfort. But it didn’t explain what he was doing here, in this small, bare, windowless, cement-encased cell.

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