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The skin on the back ofis wrong

Running footsteps pound past the other side of the door

Then the people in the waiting roohtened eyes

Someone screams outside

‘What now?’ asks Dee His voice is full of dread, like so him to huddle up and hide too

There’s a part of me that doesn’t want to open the door, but the twins pull it open to see what’s going on

Outside, everything looks quiet and still Junk is all over the place – overturned desks, chairs every which way, clothes, blankets

As h, I realize the piles of clothes strewn about the lawn are actually people It’s hard to tell with the bits

Not bits as in biteheads too

A woure the size of a wolf chases her

A couple standing in the shadows on a ay ju else – orelses – slink out of the darkness frorab their hair

Then, as if a signal has been given, shadows leap out of the night throughout the cahts it with a flashlight beam It’s a hellion

They’re s Bat-faced, bat-winged, creepy little fiends with skeletal limbs and emaciated bodies

Screaht froe – spotted and beefy with red eyes Cords ofthe other hellions look stunted They’re the tho chased me from Beliel’s ht friends

One of them lifts his mouth into the air and el Island If this is anything like the last tiuy ju, with two hellions on his back In his panic, he runs into a crowded building, bringing the two hellions with hi I hope they shot the hellions and not the guy

The hellions are after ht them here

So it’s up to , I sprint out into the night

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I puo Screaaps of silence I i their breath so they won’t be heard by the ht of what

My plan, if you can call it that, is to run like hell away froht to be plenty right in the parking lot Obi and hishard to nition and are fully gassed up for eencies like this one Well, maybe they didn’t predict a situation just like this, but close enough

Once in a car, I plan to honk that horn like nobody’s business and drive as far away as I can Hopefully, the hellions will follow et caught on the way to the car Or how to escape once they’re swar around me But that’s too e and Mom and Raffe?

I shaketo , the man will probably die If I stop to help him, I’ll lose ood choices left in the World After