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My heart boomed in my ears. “Did you hear that?”
Pavel nodded. “But. . .it didn’t come from one place. It is as if the sound just lives here on the stairwell.”
“Yes.” I shivered. “That was what I was thinking too.”
Lunita got to my side, forcing me to get closer to the wall. “I’m scared.”
“You can go back.”
“No.”
“Then, continue to remain close to me.”
“You can’t protect me here.”
“I can try.”
As we climbed higher, Lunita’s breathing became labored. And I wasn’t sure why.
Was fear filling her lungs?
Or was it a clear sign that the oppressive atmosphere in the staircase was weighing heavily on her as well?
Either way, we pressed on.
The more we rose, the more the stairs creaked, and the walls felt closer and the air became staler, and the sense of foreboding grew.
A little girl screamed, “Stop! Please!”
We all froze.
And then a man’s voice whispered in the darkness, “Shh. Don’t make any noise now. Be a good girl.”
Terror quaked within me.
I glanced over my shoulder “Did you hear that?”
Lunita went down one step.
I stared at her. “You did hear that.”
Lunita’s eyes watered. “T-that’s his voice.”
“You do not have to come up.”
She looked up toward the floor that was barely in view. “I know now. . .where we are going.”
“Where?”
“To his apartment.” Tears left her eyes. “Max lived above us.”
The revelation hit me like a physical blow, sending a chill down my spine. Sorrow rocked me too, but somehow I remained standing.
Of course. None of the alters would be willing to deal with the very thing that shattered them.
Surely, their brain had tried to bury that sicko’s apartment deep within the recesses of their mind.
“W-we don’t have to go up there.” Lunita wiped the tears away with the back of her hands. “The original isn’t there.”
