Spyretverse Spinoffs!

Another Set of Eyes - A Deeper Walls Ministory

For Evie and her family, it was another peaceful night.
Evie Caruso lived on the cul-de-sac in the middle of nowhere, in the very first house on the left. She lived with her mother, her father, and her baby sister, and she was seventeen years old. On that night, she was sitting quietly in the living room, reading one of her favorite books.
She'd lived here since she was a child. And of course, that night, she'd never expected—

"Evie." Her father came downstairs, holding her sister. "I need you to watch Lia."

"Is everything okay?" Evie took the swaddled Lia in her arms, setting down her book.

"Yeah." Her father's eyebrows crinkled. "I gotta take a piss."

"Oh, okay." Evie leaned back with Lia as her father left the room. "Liaaaa. What do you wanna watch? What do babies like these days?"

"Agagaga. Abllllpfffft."

"Sidney Junior it is, then." Evie giggled to herself, taking the blanket off Lia's head just barely, and tilting her to watch the television as she clicked the remote and a little cartoon mouse creature showed up on screen.

These shows were draining to watch all the time. But sometimes, Evie thought as she looked down at her sister, hearing Lia laugh was enough for her to watch it forever.

"Evie, go upstairs." And her mother interrupted her thoughts, speeding down the stairs. "Take Lia with you."

"Uh. Okay." Evie wasn't dumb enough to ask questions, so she turned off the TV and stood up with her sister and her book.

"Where's your father?"

"Taking a piss."

Her mother sighed, looking to the bathroom door, and looking back at Evie as she walked towards it. "Watch your language."

Evie shrugged, and took Lia upstairs, hearing her mother knock on the bathroom door.

Evie skipped going to her own bedroom, and went to the one on the opposite side of the hall—Lia's room, which was practically a sensory playroom with a crib and a window.

"Alrighty, miss Lia!" Evie unwrapped the blanket around her baby sister, and set her in the crib. "It is past your bedtime anyway."

As Lia drifted off to sleep as quickly as babies do, Evie heard something.
Crashing and clamoring coming from the window.
As she went to look at the window, a bright orange hue spilled down the street.
So, Evie opened the window, and as she leaned her head out, she saw it.
The house in the middle of the cul-de-sac was engulfed in flames.

"Oh, my God."

Evie recognized that house. Nine years ago, a family lived there, and two of the people in that family were murdered.
Now, another family had moved in.
Evie just hoped they weren't in there.

-

"Ma'am, you need to stand back."

"What happened? How did this happen?"

A crashing noise from a back window. Something had fallen through the roof.
Moments later, firefighters ran out, wheeling covered stretchers with them.

"The parents are dead. Suffocated."

"What about the kids?!"

"They're dead too." The firefighter pointed down at the stretcher. "We can't resuscitate them."

"Oh, God. No survivors?"

"Not one."

"Oh, God!"

And the house started to fall apart.

"Get back!"

The crowd ran back, watching as the house completely collapsed in on itself. Every bit of it turned to ash. And as water was splashed on it, the ash went directly into the ground. Turned to mud.

"How is it... how is it all gone? How did this—"

"We have to get these kids to the hospital, the morgue, somewhere!"

"...how is it all gone?"