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We pad along the corridor Screa off the walls like they’re never going to die away I’ym It sounds insane, orse than e snuck out

At the end of the corridor we turn right There are bodies sprawled across the floor Students like us, scratched, torn, bitten, bloody Dead As we edge past, eyeing the to life, I note that their heads have been cracked open, their brains scooped out Except one, a sirl whose skull is intact The sauts - they’re all over the place

"Wait," I whisper, stopping by the girl I look for Cass "Give me your knife"

"No one touches the knife but et over here and be ready to stab her in the head if she stirs"

"What the hell are aiting for?" Linzer snarls

"I need to find out so"

"Who do you think you are?" she screeches "So sound Bones thrust through the tips of the dead girl’s fingers, each at least half an inch long Her lips shake and pull back over her teeth, which are growing and getting thicker Her arer in her eyes I shriek and fall back She dives afterin

As I screaain, Cass appears by irl’s head, all the way to the hilt She shivers, eyes rolling He works the blade around, digs it in and out several tioes still

I forcehard The others are staring at ht on the handle of the knife

"Nothing," Imy stomach to them "She didn’t cut me See?"

"You’re lucky," Cass snorts

"Now let’s get the hell out of here, or do you want to study them some more?" Linzer sneers

"I’ve confirmed what I wanted to" I point at the other corpses "Brains Like in the movies If they eat your brain, or if it’s destroyed, you’re properly dead and there’s no co back That’s hoe kill them"

"No shit, Sherlock," Cass says "Now let’s - "