Through Glass: Episode Four by Rebecca Ethington

Author:Rebecca Ethington
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: horror, dystopian, dystopian adventure, dystopian apocalyptic, dystopian action, appocalyptic, dystopian adult thriller

Chapter Four

“I like that one better.” My voice was low and deep as I spoke through the silence of the world, careful not to let the sound get too loud and attract the attention of the creatures I could still see moving through the dark out of the corner of my eye. I was sure they were just lurking in the shadows, right beside the army of assassins Abran had sent after us.

“Lex, someone obviously held up in that house for a while. There’s not going to be anything inside.”

I knew he was right of course. The house I had focused on was intact, glass in the window panes, car in the driveway, the door only slightly ajar. It might look like the logical choice, but it was obvious someone had lived there after the world had gone black and the Tar had taken over everything.

It didn’t mean I thought Travis’s choice was any better.

From the outside, this other place looked as though it was haunted, like the abandoned homes you would see on the edges of town. Old and forgotten. Shutters hung from the empty window panes, torn curtains had been pulled through the shards of glass where they sagged lifeless in the nonexistent breeze.

I stood before the house, the silence of the dark world drowned out by the gentle buzz of the light Travis always held, and the one I had strapped to my backpack before we left the department store sometime yesterday. I looked up at the house, the winding pit of fear I always held in my stomach tightening. I knew at once I didn’t want to go in.

I didn’t know if my desire to run away from the home stemmed more from a childhood of scary stories told around a campfire, or if it was just because a house this big harbored its own dangers. I had only found sanctuary in a broken house like this once before, and even then I had been lucky to make it out alive.

The empty shells we were surrounded by weren’t just houses; they were mazes of doors and hallways. At least the other one still had windows—it still had the false sense of security I had been raised to believe in and my mind still craved. Even though I knew it was only the illusion of safety, I wanted it.

Even though I knew better. Any safety you could find was always shrouded in the fear of what could still be on the other side of the door.

In a way the scary stories had come true.

Travis walked past me and toward the old door that hung awkwardly off its hinges, the ominous feeling the house was giving me not seeming to affect him, even though his shoulders seemed a little more tense than usual.

I grit my teeth as I watched him move away, trailing after him as I followed the light, subconsciously keeping myself out of the shadows.

The light cast over the bald dirt as we walked across the

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