Kirkbride Plan by Selleck Kristen

Author:Selleck, Kristen [Selleck, Kristen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Brother Maynard Publications
Published: 2013-06-11T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“Hang up the phone,” Cyril commanded. He was no longer smiling.

“What’s happening now?” the operator demanded.

Chloe drew the phone away from her face and mimed hitting the end button.

“Throw it down,” he said.

Chloe set the phone on the floor and gave it a light kick with her foot.

“Now we can begin. You haven’t left me much time, have you?” he said.

On the floor near her, Debra let out a noise that sounded like a moan and a sob. The light had left the room almost entirely. It was evening. The sun had set behind the trees and the full dark would be close on its heels.

Chloe could still make out what Cyril was carrying. In one hand he held a long serrated hunting knife. It looked like something out of a Rambo movie. Under his other arm was his paper bag.

“Go and sit beside your mother,” he ordered.

Chloe did as he said. She sat between him and her mother, grabbing Debra’s hand.

“Now, you’ll do as I say. Bet you didn’t know just how much you were going to help the Men, did ya?” he asked.

“I don’t understand what you mean,” Chloe said.

“You’ll give me the blood I need to live. I might live forever now. Just think on that! We can make people that don’t die, just like them! Why didn’t we think of it before? It’s the only way to fight them, really. We just kept dying and dying, and they never did, they just made more like themselves all the time. They were steadily growing and we were slowly losing. Now we can win, now we can-”

“What are we winning?” Chloe cried, “How can we win against them, when we are them? What are we fighting if we do the same things as they do? Can’t you understand that?”

“There’s no other way,” Cyril shook his head. He shuffled down the stage steps and crossed the floor to them. Staying outside the circle, he walked around the entire perimeter, studying it as though looking for flaws.

“There. Just a few finishing touches,” he said.

He set the paper bag on the floor and kneeled carefully beside it. Chloe stuck her hand in her pocket and wrapped her fingers around the sharp piece of glass hidden there.

“Cyril, please,” Debra begged. “Not her, you don’t need her.”

“Oh no, I need you both. I know that now. I’ve been working on it and working on it.”

He lifted a small bottle with silvery fluid inside it, out of the bag.

“Mercury,” he said, holding it up as though for them to admire it. He pulled out an empty glass and set that down beside it.

“You see,” he continued, “I thought always that it had to be a life for a life. That’s what the monsters have always said. Always, since I was little, they would come to me and say that everything was equal. Energy is never lost, just moved around. You had to take a life to gain a life. And that’s what they always wanted.

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