Project XZ3

Chapter 4

Room 95. I hope for someone alive. I lock the wheel off and close my eyes. I hope this will turn out well. I open the door and look in. Nothing... I hear or see nothing, for now. I look into the room, I look right and see a body, an alive body. All I see is a head and a body, no arms no legs.

"Oh" I say and put my hands to my mouth, not sure what to think of this. It looks up at me and moves away from me. "I'm not going to hurt you" I have a feeling I'm going to be saying this a lot more. It turns around some, and looks up at me. I kneel down.

"Don't be afraid" Polly says behind me and comes near me. "There's nothing to be afraid of" yet... I think. Who knows what can happen in this place. He... looks at Polly, then at me, and then shuffles forward.

"Where are we?" he asks in a low tone.

"We don't know, this is a very strange place, we're going to find out" I hope. All I want to do is find out who else is here, and then get the answers. That is the plan.

"Well... we need to leave... we need to see who else is here and get out of here" I say. This plan. Is a go.

Room 94. I look down the corridor. This is going to take too long. I can't ask the others to open the doors, none of them can reach. This is going to take too long. I sigh, grab the wheel and lock it off. Smoke bellows out of the room. It reaches my eyes and I find myself coughing and my eyes watering. I turn around and look in the room. Through the smoke I see something breathing, something alive.

The smoke clears and I see a body lying on the floor. I see a face breathing out smoke. The face looks so young, younger than Billy. The body is as big as mine, a bare chest and a blanket over the legs. Dare I take the blanket off to see what is there? And I'm not even sure that there are legs under there. With caution, I walk slowly into the room. My glare is transfixed on the smoke coming out of its mouth. At a guess, I would say it is a male. It looks at me, gobsmacked and shocked. Again, they will have not seen another person in so long.

"It's okay...." I say, my mind drifting, transfixed on the smoke around. "I'm not going to hurt you"

"Please... kill... me..." he says, breathing out smoke after every word.

"Erm...." I can't do that. He's already in too much pain, he can't move, and he's breathing out smoke. There is nothing I can do to help. "I'm sorry"

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" he yells. Scared, I jump back at the wall. He sucks in some of the smoke and his cheeks suck in to his face. "Achh" he starts to turn blue; his eyes go up into his head, and then appears lifeless.

"What's going on?" Billy asks behind the door.

"No" I say and walk out. "You don't want to go in there... it wasn't pretty"

"What was it?"

"It... is... now dead" I shut the door behind me and lock it. Well that was interesting. "Let's go" and now for room 93.