Hide and Go Seek

19. Grim

I float(?) in this nowhere place for what feels like ages. Suddenly, I feel a sharp tug, and I am back in my body. Not in control, but at least I'm back. I focus on what It is looking at. Alan. Oh, sweet bovine. He is tied up and gagged, passed out on the floor of some warehouse, probably in the middle of nowhere. He had cuts all over him, and his clothes were in tatters. And his leg. One of them was a bloody mess. It looked like someone took a meat tenderizer to it.

What the heck happened while I was gone?

"So glad you asked. When I sent you away, I was able to stab him in the shoulder. I don't know exactly what I might have severed, but he lost the function to move his arm. After that, it was easy to overpower him and knock him out. The part that was hard was getting him out with all the neighbors knocking on the door and asking them if everything was alright. By the time I got us out the window, I had to hide and get away from the cops, which I bet is that stupid girl's doing."

I sit there horrified at what It just said.

"And you're correct! It was a meat tenderizer." It snickers as I do the mental equivalent of dry heaving. "And by the way. Don't ever try something like what you did back there ever again. I am much stronger than you think, and I can banish you to that realm of nothingness again and keep you there. I would much rather have you here for the show, though."

It could have banashed me this entire time? It just wanted me here to watch it maim my friends one by one... this thing is horrible, demonic. But there is something more important weighing on my mind: Why, why isn't Alan dead? Why haven't you killed him yet? I dare to inquire. It has obviously been a while since I have been gone. A lot of the blood on him is dried. It could have easily been a day or two.

"Well, you see, I was hoping to subdue them both so I could torture them together, making the other watch the sessions before killing them. Get in some more of that mental torture stuff, but I overestimated my ability to get them both in this tiny body so the girl got away. I am planning on getting her first before killing him."

I feel sick to my stomach. I can't even imagine what it would be like to see my own sister tortured in front of me, and we are hardly even close. I would hate to think what the twins might feel watching the other in so much pain.