The wall explodes in a hailstorm of shattered bricks as the creature locates a weak spot in the masonry. Staggering from the hole, the top of its head bashed in from ramming through solid brick, the creature aims for the oil tank. A single swipe from a paw armed with wickedly curved talons knocks the large barrel clean off its foundation and sends ( Read more... )

Despite the steamy warmth of the washroom and the post-shower heat that radiates from her body in waves Eleven shivers. There is no logical reason for her to be cold: she isn’t feverish, the water had been blissfully hot and she is dressed in the warmest clothes she has. Still it is hard to ignore the trembling of her hand as she wipes the mirror ( Read more... )

‘Stupid, stupid Ten… No, if anyone here is stupid it is me. I should’ve known that none of this would last for long. One such as I does not deserve the happiness I have been so greedily hording these last few days. I have to leave before the Facility finds this place. The longer I stay here the more danger I am putting them in ( Read more... )