Wager's Price by G. P. Ching

Author:G. P. Ching [Ching, G. P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-940675-24-4
Publisher: Carpe Luna Publishing

23

Expose

Hope bit her lip and stared at her roommate, deeply concerned. “Bodies?” She tested the knob. “The door’s locked, Finn.”

“There’s a whole secret passageway down there. The clowns are running some sick laboratory. They stole your hair. There are tubes filled with bodies.”

“Stole my hair?” She placed a hand on her head.

“One hair,” he said, rolling his eyes.

“Finn, when I woke, you were standing here in front of a locked door.” She placed her hand on the knob again. “How did you get out?”

Agitated, Finn scratched the inside of his forearm. His eyes darted to his pocket. The shift was quick enough that she might not have caught it if she wasn’t a Soulkeeper. He was hiding something.

Hope squinted at Finn. Waves of anxiety rolled off him and sweat dripped from his temple. He was really shaken up, and if there were bodies under the school, she needed him to tell her everything. This might be the break she was waiting for. “Okay, let’s say a clown did steal my hair,” she said softly. “The door was locked when we went to bed and is locked now. How did the clown get in and you get out?”

Finn’s eyes shifted. “The clown came in… and I followed him out. I don’t know. It must have had a key.”

Hope frowned. “What aren’t you telling me, Finn?”

“We need to get help.”

“You should show me what you saw. Do you think you can remember where you were?”

“I’ll never forget it. But it’s not safe. You don’t want to see the things I saw.”

All the more reason that I should see it, Hope thought. “Maybe what you think you saw wasn’t what it seemed.”

“I know what I saw.”

“Tell me.”

Finn described it all from the sliding wall to the hexagonal vats.

Hope thought for a second. “Under the school?”

Finn nodded. “They took your hair and Wendy’s blood.”

“They took Wendy’s blood?”

“The first day. One of the clowns collected it from the ground after she fell.”

“I’d still like you to show me,” Hope said again. “Secret chambers, honeycomb walls, hot ice under glass. It sounds like a mystery. We promised to help each other, remember?”

Finn closed his eyes. “I’ll show you. I need to know for sure.”

“You’d better get some sleep. It’s almost dawn,” she said, backing toward her bed.

She noticed him slip something into his upper drawer before climbing under his covers. He was hiding something all right, and she needed to find out what. As much as she’d meant to comfort Finn, someone or something stealing her hair and another student’s blood was a serious situation that smacked of the unholy. And if the clowns were responsible for the lost souls, all the students were in grave danger.

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