Hidden Mall 47: Grabbed

[aldersprig]

The pathways got narrower the next level up - not that the stairway itself, individual treads held up by nearly-invisible cables, wasn’t a nightmare in and of itself - and shakier, and then they had one more stairway to go up, the ceiling looking like a pincushion of cables above them.

The last stairway was right next to a series of bodies, hung by the neck and looking like halloween decorations more than people.  One of them was wearing Abby’s favorite shirt, but it wasn’t her. Couldn’t be her. She was right here. She held a Liv’s hand and swallowed around bile.

The body closest to the stairs moved.  Not the Abby, a stranger, a hand reaching out towards Liv.  

Liv darted away, retching.  “It was dead,” she whispered to herself. “It’s dead.”



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Comments

[sauergeek]

I. I have no idea what I want to do to whoever set up this room, but I want it to be unpleasant. Animate corpses that can be traps, that can talk, that can help — but won't stop "helping" — and can scream. I'd want to help, but I suspect the best thing I could do would be to get out and find a way to reduce the whole thing into its component molecules. Abby and Livs, good luck finding a way to do that or something like it.