The doors lay battered open by the monsters. We climbed the stairs. My stomach tensed, sobbing echoing. Were all my other women fine? We passed into t...e threshold, leaving behind the dwindling twilight of the outside into the darker interior. Carsina sobbed over the mangled body lying in a puddle of water. The entire sanctum was flooded, water flowing around my feet as it drained out at the corners.Zanyia, splattered in black ichor, looked pleased as she crouched atop a dead monster, her tawny. It felt as if he building up to something and one day, as a blunt northerner, he just came out and asked me if I would be up for some frolics in the barn with him, Alfie, Micky and some friends. It took me aback, especially as it is not usually a good idea to be up to no good so close to home, but there was a part of me that thought why not? In fact it grew and grew in my mind and previous experience had been really good. Next time I saw I told John that I was up for it, and suggested the. I set up my laptop to act as a go between to my new external hard drive, so that it could record everything with lots of memory space. I had them set to start recording at 5 pm Tuesday night, and record continuously till I got home. I told my wife, her name is Jan, I would not be home until sometime Friday afternoon, knowing full well I would be home late Thursday night. I followed Stacey out of the office parking lot, we both went our separate ways. As I got to my house, I noticed some strange. For the first time all evening he was not standing in a manner that matched his impeccable uniform. Now he was as I remembered, leaning languidly on the desk. Legs crossed at the ankles. And though I couldn’t see his face, the moonlight from the grand window behind the desk shadowed it, I knew the look he surely had. The same look he had when I had followed him for the first time, and one I would not easily forget. ‘Ye look a sight for sore eyes, lass’ He didn’t move, nor did I, except for the.