Faces and masks: City of Fear

Chapter 3 - "Meeting the mysterious girl."

The last thing the girl heard before she passed out, if it could happen to you in your sleep, was the scream of a hideous, cloaked, humanoid creature calling itself "Rake." He called her name... full name...

The awakening was abrupt. She simply opened her eyes, staring at the ceiling of her own room. She looked around. Nothing unusual about that. Just her room. But Emily remembered that they had spent the night outside, in the cabin in the middle of the woods where they had been sheltered by a girl who looked so much like Rachel.

With the memories came another realization... Her friends! Sally and Larry should be in this house, right? Since she was awake, so were they!

Emily jumped out of bed, noting out of the corner of her eye that she was dressed as she had been yesterday. Black dress with knee-length straps and high boots. Even those same gloves on the hands of remained. Only her hair was loose. She pushed them off her face and quickened her pace.

From the feel of it, the apartment was empty. Even mothers. Or she was resting. Recently, the woman began to feel ill and increasingly stayed in the bedroom to relax, while the father of the family was engaged in a variety of work with the help of his unusual abilities. The older sister would be in her lab, but she had no idea where Emma and Eric were. But they'll be fine. They can take care of themselves. Here's Sally and Larry... perfectly ordinary people. They must be protected. And she'll do it.

Internal clock and sensations showed, that now early morning. 10-12 hours. Strange, that in such time no one there is no. Usually they first have Breakfast together, often inviting someone from the neighbors. Most of the same Fisher or Johnson. Heck! Now thought only about these two! Well where the heck are they then?!

She ran into the living room, which doubled as the bedroom where they usually watched TV in the evenings or early mornings, and looked around, trying to catch her breath.

All as usual. Large room. Two bedside tables against the wall, a couple of simple paintings, a dressing table next to a wide bed. A red carpet covered the floor. And a small but wide-screen TV in the middle of the room. Near with him chair, on which, in this moment, sat a small girl years 8-10. Wavy brown hair, green eyes, pink dress. She was watching the channel with interference, on what not paying attention. This, as well as the fact that there was a strange girl in their house, put her in a stupor.

"We have guests? Why wasn't I warned? I feel a little awkward."- flashed in my head have fallen into the drop Emily. Hands routinely began to sort through long, disheveled after sleep and running scarlet hair.

Finally the girl noticed her and jumped from his chair with a broad smile ran up to her. Her eyes shone like two emeralds. In General, she's really cute.

- Hi. Your name is Emily, isn't it?" Miss Mary said the youngest of her daughters, named Emily, had red hair. So she was talking about you. Your mother told me a lot of things. My name is Sally alder! Nice to meet you! she grabbed her hand with both hands and started to shake, thereby introducing the girl into an even greater stupor and tenderness at the same time. She just didn't know what to say. This was her frequent solution in awkward situations.

"I'm watching candle Cove on TV right now!" Want to see? with that, the little girl pulled her to a chair and sat her down again, staring fixedly, unblinking, at the gray-cluttered television screen.

Emily looked from him to the brown-haired woman several times. The channel both showed interference and continued to do so.

- "Strangely... They don't show anything. What kind of transmission is this? Never heard of one. And why does it show only noise and interference? But she seems to like it. Then I'll pretend I'm not either."