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Why isn’t Mona waking up? Could this be the ghoul’s influenceher sleep so heavily? I would have shouted for her, but I didn’t want to give e of the bed and looked up to see Erik reaching for the curtain rail and yanking it froain as it attempted to lash out at hiainst the creature’s sto it backward to create a safer distance between hi black nails

I crawled to the other side of the bed and stood up

I was about to reach for Mona’s shoulders to shake her when Erik yelled again

"Watch out!" The ghoul had noticedthe nearest thing to ed the object easily and my attempt only seemed to rile it up further

"Mona! Wake up!" Erik bellowed as the ghoul’s sharp hands gripped forme upside down like a piece of rasp as its nails sped toward my chest

What followed happened so fast I could barely cohoul’s hold ondown onto the bed

Erik had leapt up and grabbed its feet, atteure had just entered the roohoul down, Kiev leapt onto the bed and, springing onto the bed, extended a clawed hand for the ghoul’s throat

He o in vain

Before the ghoul could evaporate once again, I jus too

With the two of us dragging the creature doard, ere faster in pulling it to the ground

By now, I couldn’t help but wonder why it hadn’t disappeared

Fro the sa

Perhaps it can’tonto it… This tihoul’s nails, he caught its throat within the claws of his right hand and dug in deep

There was a sickening squelch as black blood streamed down Kiev’s wrist

In one final houl’s head

Its skull rolled onto the floor, its body still shaking as blood spilled out of it

The three of us stared at each other, panting

It was only now that I realized so was odd about Kiev’s appearance

Very odd

When he pulled off his cloak to wipe down his right hand, both Erik and I gasped

"Y-your ar over to his brother

"What the hell happened to you?" Kiev took in a rasping breath and gave Erik a dark look as he staggered toward Mona on the bed