| The smell was not familiar?I was sure I had never smelled it before?and yet I had an
odd feeling that itshould be familiar to me
I was afraid to move around the corner
What's the worst they will do to us?Mel pointed outake us leave?
You're right
Things had definitely changed if that was the worst I could fear from the humans now
I took a deep breath?noticing again that strange,wrong smell?and eased around the rocky edge
into the hospital
Doc was kneeling on the floor, his face buried in his hands, his shoulders heavingJeb leaned
over him, patting his back
Jared and Kyle were laying a crude stretcher beside one of the cots in the middle of the room
Jared's face was hard?the mask had come back while he was away
The cots were not empty, as they usually cartier rodster swiss watches wereSomething, hidden under dark green blankets,
filled the length of both of themLong and irregular, with familiar curves and angles?
Doc's homemade table was arranged at the head of these cots, in the brightest spot of sunlight
The table glittered with silver?shiny scalpels and an assortment of antiquated medical tools that
I couldn't put a name to
Brighter than these were other silver thingsShimmering segments of silver stretched in
twisted, tortured pieces across the table? tiny silver strands plucked and naked and scattered?
splatters of silver liquid smeared on the table, the blankets, the walls?
The quiet in the room was shattered by my screamThe wholeroom was shatteredIt spun and
shook to the sound, whirled around me so that I couldn't hermes kelly find the way outThe walls, the
silver-stained walls, rose up to block my escape no matter which way I turned
Someone shouted my name, but I couldn't hear whose voice it wasThe screaming was too
loudThe stone wall, oozing silver, slammed into me, and I fell to the floor
Heavy hands held me there
?Doc, help!?
?What's wrong with her??
?Is it having a fit??
?What did she see??
?Nothing?nothingThe bodies were covered!?
That was a lie! The bodies were hideously uncovered, strewn in obscene contortions across the
glittering tableMutilated, dismembered, tortured bodies, ripped into grotesque shreds?
I had clearly seen the vestigial feelers still attached to the truncated anterior section of a child
Just a child! A baby! A baby thrown haphazardly in maimed tiffany jewelry imitation pieces across the table smeared
with its own blood?
My stomach rolled like the walls were rolling, and acid clawed its way up my throat
?Wanda? Can you hear me??
?Is she conscious??
?I think she's going to throw up
The last voice was rightHard hands held my head while the acid in my stomach violently
overflowed
?What do we do, Doc??
?Hold on to her?don't let her hurt herself
I coughed and squirmed, trying to escape
?Let me go!? I was finally able to choke outThe words were garbled?Get away from me! Get
away; you're monsters! Torturers!?
I shrieked wordlessly again, twisting against the restraining arms
?Calm down, Wanda! Shh! It's okay!? That was Jared's voiceFor once, it didn't matter that it
was Jared
?Monster!? I screamed at him
?She's hermes bag hysterical,? Doc told him
A sharp, stinging blow whipped across my face
There was a gasp, far away from the immediate chaos
?What are youdoing? ? Ian roared
?It's having a seizure or something, IanDoc's trying to bring it around
My ears were ringing, but not from the slapIt was the smell?the smell of the silver blood
dripping down the walls?the smell of the blood of soulsThe room writhed around me as
though it were aliveThe light twisted into strange patterns, curved into the shapes of monsters
from my pastA Vulture unfurled its wings? a claw beast swung its heavy pincers toward my
face? Doc smiled and reached for me with silver trickling from his fingertips?
The room spun once more, slowly, and then went black
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