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There was an electronic crackle, and a voice filled the roo as you want"

I wanted out of this insane asylu down the silver handle, but it didn&039;t budge

I turned and my eyes raced over every square inch of the enclosed room There was a metal table in the very center I walked up to it and looked down at the weapons laid on top: a handgun, crossbow, hunting knife, ax, and wooden stake

The intercom crackled back to life

"Once the subject has fed on your blood you will need to choose a weapon and finish hi anyone Melcher? Let me out of here"

"Now!" I screamed

"Good luck, Aurora"

I expected so happened

I circled the table and kept glancing at the door Trapped inside a less room eapons that made my skin crawl Fantastic There wasn&039;t even a clock to track thethey could&039;ve at least put a chair inside

I folded my arms over my chest and looked at the tay mirror

"What&039;s the matter with Dracula? Can&039;t find his cape?" I chuckled, but it sounded nervous

I walked over to the far corner of the rooainst the wall

There was a hollow knock at the door across the roo an eerie, drawn-out echo

I wanted to crack a joke, but soht My heart pounded its way up to my throat and I&039;d barely shen the door flew open A ed man in flannel was thrown in The door slaht hireasy hair covered his face as he bent forward When he righted himself, I saw that his cheeks were sunken, lips bared over yellow teeth He snarled and spit leaked out the corners of his ht

The ht his eye He wheezed when he saw me His eyes were bloodshot His clothes looked like they hadn&039;t been washed in months

This was no vampire This was a lunatic

He crossed the roo the weapons laid out on the table At least he showed no interest in those

I sprang to life, skirting the wall as I hustled to the exit on the opposite side

"Let me out of here!" I pounded on the door "Let s felt ready to rupture

The lunatic ca toward ed madman who&039;d been locked in the room with me by psychopaths I was part of some kind of experiment Maybe this was a test to see how I handled stress Maybe they wanted ether different type of operative They wanted to desensitize inable horrors

Well, I didn&039;t care if I passed I just wanted out - and not just out of that room

I kicked the door and walked over to the taythe show?"

I turned and began circling the roo the table betweenat me slowly, like a zombie in a horror film At least he&039;d shown no sudden bursts of locomotion

We moved clockwise around the room The space was so s the maniac&039;s speed to keep him as far from me as possible

My neck soon ached fro it over my shoulder to keep track of the lunatic&039;s location I suppose I hadable to walk for ns of fatigue, either

Round and round ent untiland my vision blurred

It took a while for the first feelings of exhaustion to creep inside irl on her toes But hours began to feel like days, and finally, I collapsed when rounding a corner I hit an elbow as I landed, sending a tingle up my arm My pursuer came toward me at the same creepy pace His eyes opened wider and murky irises burned inside

I scralared into the taythis to me?" I screamed

I rushed to the table and picked up the revolver Before this un I pointed it at the madman His stared back with vacant eyes, sunk inside a twisted face "Stay where you are!"

He looked at

I retreated and began sobbing when I re-entered the circle

Make it end Whatever it takes

I turned suddenly and ai with a shaky hand The last tiht before that SUV took me out My heart seized insidehappened

"Shit!" I screaun It clattered over the floor as I sprinted away and resu directly across from the man

Tears leaked down the corners of ht for all I knew I could suddenly understand how people went crazy Maybe that&039;s what the agents were really up to - solanced overto drain I willed , but at some point they stopped and I stood rooted in place TheIt was disgusting The fear in ue, but as the foul being closed in on me, terror renewed itself like a jolt of electricity to the brain

I intended to shove hih to handle ainst his chest, but instead of falling, thecrush and pulledsnarl

At that point,I opened my mouth, but was unable to inhale or exhale

A cold, sweaty hand gripped my face so hard it felt like my jaould break

I would have liked to know that in the last instant I struggled That I fought for my life But I didn&039;t I was paralyzed I even suspected ht kill me before the madman did

I felt his teeth at an pounding inside ainst hand it was revolting and stirred a nauseating arousal inside me that I couldn&039;t explain Blood rushed to an to suck

I tilted my head back and closedwith thick, red gore The cla the life from , whatever it was, began to spasony Its eyes widened until they looked like they would pop out of their sockets

I lay spent across the floor, like a bloody hu I looked toward the ratulations, Aurora, you have poisoned your first vampire As you can see, he is in a state of paralysis He can barely ency we&039;re working on, but eventually he will get up and want to feed again"

I felt like throwing up when I heard the word "feed" Instinctively I touched ers

"This is your gift, Aurora Your blood Now finish the creature off"

I pushedposition and looked toward thebehind me didn&039;t let up Several ed

"If you don&039;t take the creature&039;s life, you will have to do this all over again We can&039;t let you out of this roo - the creature is capable of killing He could snap your neck or suffocate you"

I thought I was too overcome to allow terror to return, but the first shiver rocked throughat the body behind hastly I almost wanted to kill it just to make the noise stop It was that four-letter word that anchored round

Kill

How could I?

"You&039;re asking me to commit murder," I said to theanother huathered my knees in my arms and laid my head on them

"Aurora, this creature is a killer Before we captured it, it killed women and children without discrimination - hundreds, possibly thousands of victims over time Think of the lives you could save This isn&039;t murder This is justice"