Hell's Gifts - Complete Series Boxset by Mark Russo

Author:Mark Russo [Russo, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-11T22:00:00+00:00

13

James

The worm took down the demon; too bad I had to do it, I thought she differed from the others. She was nothing like Frank. I ordered the beast to hide. I wanted to inspect the area before putting my plan into action.

In the distant outer court, buses moved left and right, bringing EIBM personnel and students away from the building I had just set on fire. No one was caring for me. In the distance, I heard the fire brigade vehicles’ sirens screaming. It was time to check the inside. I did not want anyone to get hurt.

The school looked exactly like it had two years before—a huge block of concrete with wide windows thrown in the middle of the Swiss forest. I went by the side door, the one leading to the underground tunnel. I entered the building quietly and popped up by the main staircase. The main lobby appeared deserted. I heard people and vehicles in the close distance but did see them.

The snake had said the members of the Communion would return to Plane K as soon as I started the fire, and so it looked. They abandoned the building immediately. “They would not fight yet. Converting, not annihilating is their new strategy,” Vagras had said. Thinking of him made me clench my fists.

I got rid of my negative emotions, and headed left, in the opposite direction to the greenhouses area. The next bullet point on my plan was to take care of the main technical room. The short corridor leading to that area of the building looked uncared for, as only robots would normally walk there. It didn’t have to look pretty. The metal panel leading to that room seemed heavy and had no handles or button or anything to help me open it.

A stone wall raised right below it, crushed it and folded like a piece of scrap paper. I entered and turned on the manual light switch—quite an old-fashioned perk for such a small space. The first thing I noticed among the huge whirring machines was someone sitting on the floor, his face crumpled between his arms. By his clothes, he looked like a student, a quite scared one, and his fine reddish hair vaguely resembled mine.

“What are you doing here?” I asked him.

“The door was open before. Something was outside, something huge. I ran here and slammed it behind me. Then a huge rock spur raised from the ground. I thought I’d be safe here.”

This would slow me down. “What is your name?”

“Pavel. Pavel Vesely. I am a student here.”

“Well, I attended EIBM too, but we can’t stay here now. There’s a fire in the underground level. Soon, it will propagate to the rest of the building.”

He held his head in his hands. “How do we know where to go?”

“I saw the huge beast too. It went for the forest. It is no longer around.”

“What is your name? You didn’t say it yet.” He made eye contact for the first time.

“James. Pavel, we have to leave now.

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