Darkfall by Stephen Laws

Author:Stephen Laws [Laws, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Brooligan Press
Published: 2019-03-17T04:00:00+00:00

EIGHT

Outside, in the rain, it turned what had once been its head up to look at the storm. Rain swilled and foamed in its open mouth as it looked at the churning black clouds and the eruptions of fractured lightning. It knew somehow that it belonged there, not here, and when thunder boomed in the sky it heard that thunder in its newly transmogrified body. It felt the thunder although its hearing faculties had been destroyed by the absorption process. It cried out in response; a bellowing gargle of pain and hate and recognition. Rainwater and petrol gushed from the corners of its mouth. The wind whipped the rags of burned and sundered clothes on its greatly enlarged body.

It turned from the storm and from those inside the office block; its need focusing on the ruined corpse that lay on the pavement next to it. The body was lying face up in the rain.

At first only crudely aware of what its new body needed to survive, it had taken the man crudely. Now it knew what its transmogrified form could do; knew instinctively how its own powers of absorption and reconstitution could be used to feed that terrible need.

It scooped the corpse from its crimson res-ting place on the pavement. A tide of rainwashed blood swept into the gutter. With rain hissing all around it, flowing on its ravaged and transmogrified new flesh of steel and wire and windscreen and rubber, the thing embraced Pearce’s bloody corpse; crushing the flesh tightly to its chest; feeling its own new flesh swarming around him, absorbing him, taking him into itself. . . and growing even larger.

Even when Pearce’s innards had been completely absorbed and digested, the thing’s need was still strong. It strode through the black rain to the car wreck in the forecourt, sensing the presence of more food. Stooping to fasten an encrusted claw under the bottom of the car beside the ruined driver’s door, it straightened again and heaved with incredible strength. The car rolled over on to its back with a grinding crash, exposing beneath it the bloodied meat of the two policemen who had been supervising the cordon.

It fed.

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