Minutes later we're taken next door. We're handed off to a mortician who leads us down a hall into the creepy room where the bodies are stored. It's just like how they look in movies. The tiny metal doors, extra bright fluorescent lights, and a musty stench of too much bleach, barely masking the smell of decay. Everything down here rots. The mortician warns us in broken English.
"Warning, this be graphic. Very, very graphic. Not for light hearted or weak stomached." He looks us both in the eye and when we just nod ready to get this over with he opens the little metal door and pulls out our sister. As he pulls my heart feels as if it's being ripped from my chest.
There she is. It looks as if she could be sleeping and the only thing that tells me she isn't is her appearance. Her once brown skin is greying and her curly dark hair is now flat and lifeless. I put a hand over my mouth and gasp as I look down and see a division between her legs and her torso. She was cut in half? Who could be so sick and twisted? I squeeze my eyes shut trying to get a hold of myself as my tears roll again. I take a shuddering breath and wipe my face. Cam is standing back and quietly places a hand on his mouth while he looks away. After an eternity of silence and internal pain the mortician asks.
"Is this Ayana Byers?" He says this gently and looks at us with sympathy. I look back at what used to be my sister my body hurting all over and I simply reply.
"Yes." Before we're lead back to the station for questioning, I make a promise to Yana and myself. I will find out what happened and bring justice to our family no matter how long it takes. With that I step into the sunlight with a new resolution.
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HorrorDo you know the legend? Are you young? Are you alone? Don't be, she'll get you if you are. On a trip to Tokyo with her siblings that ends in her sister's horrendous death, Liya must do everything in her power to get justice for her family and her s...
