“Let me sleep,” I whined, slowly kicking at the sheets to get them off me. It was scalding hot and muggy in my room.
Wake up, Prince of Darkness,
the unrecognizable female voice giggled.
Defender of the vulnerable
Annihilator of evil.
They are coming.
Eat the rich,a man said.
Kill your uncle.
Kill your Mum.
Kill them aaaaallllll!
Clockwise circle eighty-nine and forty-three back then one.
I heard boots drumming on the wooden, as if there were hundreds of soldiers marching through the room.
They’re coming.
Go to his room.
He's hurting her.
He’ll eat her liver.
Clockwise circle eighty-nine and forty-three back then one.
Up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up.
I sat in the pitch-black darkness. “Who’s there?” I yelled, but they kept talking.
Clockwise circle eighty-nine and forty-three back then one.
Up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up.
Time to kill.
The voice chuckled.
Ticktock. Ticktock. Tiiiiiicccck… Tooooooock!
Hyperventilating, I covered my ears, trying to massage away the pain the last word had wrung into my ear.
“Who are you?”
No one answered. Instead, they whispered among each other. Needing to confirm that Mum was okay, I slid off the bed in my new satin pajamas. The hall was only slightly lit by the moonlight bleeding through the flower-shaped window at the end of it. Slowly, around the corner to my left, up the staircase, I listened for her. Although I’d explored every corner of the house I was so confused. The voices had me turning everywhere and suddenly the house was like a maze that shrunk and turned right and left as if it were a worm. In my hurry to get to her, I started opening every door.
She’s DEAD. Dead.
Dead.
Dead.
