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CREATURE IN THE VAULT
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ELLIE
The guard shoved me forward and slammed the door shut.
Before I could utter so much as a whimper, he snapped the lock into place, and his heavy footsteps marched back the way he had come.
The way we had come.
Only now, it was just me in this cell.
In this cage, with this monster.
The room was dark; the only light source was a glass wall.
It looked out on the prison, but even that did little more than give the tiny space an otherworldly green hue as it was the middle of the night, and the other cells were silent.
I turned hesitantly toward the darkness.
Where I knew the beast to be.
Few knew this prisoner even existed at Ikmal.
Because, officially, he didn’t exist.
I tried to keep the few details I knew about this prisoner from my mind.
I didn’t want him to read them on my face.
I shuffled toward the dark sheath of the shadows, my medical tools sweaty in my quivering palms.
I stopped at the darkness’s edge, as sharp as a blade.
I looked back at the cell door.
It was pointless to do so as no one would come in and rescue me.
Not now.
I shuffled a little closer to the darkness and managed to lift my foot, preparing to step into the shadowy recesses—
And I froze, my foot hanging limply a foot off the ground.
The shadows! I thought. The shadows… they moved!
I was sure of it!
I stared into them even harder but wasn’t sure if what I had seen — what I thought I had seen — had really taken place.
Maybe it was just a figment of my imagination.
Was all this just a figment of my imagination? I wondered.
I wished it was.
I wished it was all a terrible dream I would wake up from, finding myself in my comfy bed back on Earth.
