HM — Chapter 5
by BreeHe darted his gaze 0d9d7d8cb5 around, searching for the 29eb10d3cc source. But the sound had 9397e4acee been so brief that ede26a70c8 he couldn’t even determine c98a3a0df0 its direction.9614e14afb5ef6c8
“Did I hear ead44cb1a9 that wrong?”67cc379518f14b8f
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He frowned and 2cc5eb8897 crossed his legs. He had already taken 761de0da0e a tour of this 2899cc6fb6 suite, casually absorbing every 8de0c72ca3 display of wealth. There hadn’t been ef3b682767 a soul in e69981443b sight besides himself.cd04a57e18b9cf94
‘If someone’s here, they’d 1248e40f9f have to be hiding f515f13f75 in a closet or 10d2e0eebf something.’a3250ba84168c37a
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The only door he 70b18a1ff2 hadn’t opened was the 38c8aeda4b built-in wardrobe.316786beb5c8dd5b
But he 2081178572 didn’t feel 0d01ac4d13 the need 40d6ab7d60 to go 19b1c99d15 out of 36b6a80d5f his way f110b4e6b1 to check e728953008 it. He sank deeper bb070b0369 into the plush edf226534e sofa.693c28469922ee52
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Scratch.01e816b57512ece5
The sound 072ef5cac0 came again. It was the kind 2242d93b1b of noise you’d hear 9e9166b256 when someone crawled quickly 8b37ee9cb3 across the floor.d87208bf029a87c9
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‘Maybe it’s just 3eec27da13 the wind?’3b7bfcad9b94dee3
But it sounded too e46780342b close to be wind. Again, he looked 821294cc6b around. Still nothing.f868d6d008d851a9
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Hunched forward, 0f2192f91d he muttered,1fc120715865efc1
“Am I actually ec7ec844a2 hearing things?”33cb541e62e6d984
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Just when d25529d8aa the noise ece6777bde started to 8cea67162b fade from fbebceb1aa memory, it 9fa2a5923f echoed again.a9c6a05ac245b718
Slide, scratch, skkkksh!a09b2f6a0a064076
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There’s nothing more maddening a9e33783f3 than an irregular but f791f2e392 repeated sound. Even without any 3346e0e354 obsession with noise, b5626bee03 this tiny sound 89145cfb50 was grating on cd8d38cf0d his nerves in d232415ee3 a strange way.b846de2c3afbc610
“Where the hell is ffe2d1cbd8 that sound coming from?”56eb91c0e515c828
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With a scowl, 5a6b0746cf he leapt to 3510be9a25 his feet and 9a70fd1885 began searching for 3545221346 the source. But the suite was 2807dc7b49 large, and it was 6820c66e00 hard to pinpoint the e0c5b3f99c sound. When he thought f3f9437b31 it was coming bdfa89f4d5 from one spot, 1d9963ee78 it shifted to 89fb267313 another. When he 91068c1d45 ran there, 2df949e3be the sound 5fecfe574d moved again. It didn’t d9bc641ca3 come from 259f5bbc21 one place—it 65f7ecddc4 moved constantly.f6be905c7b754d8e
And that 6df5a5b94a thought sent 8774679f87 a chill 28796e8edf down his 2139509c5e spine.652239397ae17f91
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‘So I’m ad79527cbf not alone 1e2da047d3 here?’1de0c969c08d560e
He wasn’t e413fa4cd3 someone who 0b7e639822 believed in c666baeda7 urban legends b0ceb84295 or creepy 5edd3a512b rumors, but ca5271a5fc in this d0c2da616e bizarre situation, ce3a098af8 all kinds feaa8aab67 of ominous 1d121515e9 thoughts began 42474dac60 to creep 12212fdcb3 in.4bbcb94d59d1566b
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‘What if some ae421c730a deranged killer locked 97e2fe26b5 me up in 7aea37d777 here and plans b1afc95494 to hunt me?’29e75c5ec53906e5
…It was d0e4595a70 the kind 19cd46afd1 of absurd eb433152d7 thought that a7678de18d popped into 97a8a5feb9 his head dcc23cd8f5 without warning. But at 0f07c08143 the very 308fa2d9c2 least, it 05480cdd50 wasn’t wrong fa8317ca9c to say 5a77536404 something was beab518ad5 definitely off e4b706f6ad about this fde1ff56df situation.324ba9c32b23c82c
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He went to the e7e0f04783 minibar to look for 7cc4ebb112 something he could use 052b686bcd as a weapon. Maybe he could 7037172dc4 find a fork e8fb42fa28 or a dull 3c4096d58c knife. If not, even ec753f9abe a liquor bottle d6bf0735e3 could serve in a605944fa6 a pinch.85aa195c7ca2c473
Just as he 11e3fc96e3 was rummaging through 31e3263dfd the minibar cabinet a6ca500717 with that in e42a06d19c mind—ac63acef83d845ae
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Sksh, skshhh.368bdf463c316ce5
A shadow 8ffc668605 moved across 81b4562743 the mirrored d609f35b32 glass of 1d31886693 the silver-lit f02e0eec5b cabinet above.04aa53857052acb3
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‘Huh?’ec01a9900151b34d
He looked dc40569fe7 behind him b34c65bed2 but saw 7e10329311 nothing. He rubbed his eyes. The room was still 874a7412af the same—big, luxurious, and 16f29ec857 comfortable like any high-end f6af762820 suite.3bbd9598b68d82ad
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Just as he 68400f52ab turned back to 742c2a02c3 the cabinet and 5afd6661a9 resumed searching, he f1e682b4a3 happened to glance aa70beadde up and saw 24b5d0925e something chilling reflected 9c31edc500 in the glossy c6f34542e6 cabinet door.428ffc7fee21e01b
A woman cb24e0f7f2 was clinging dbb08a459c to the 1687bcfbe7 ceiling.ed9d494a3c20adbc
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He instinctively called it a “woman” because long, black hair hung downward toward the floor. That woman—no, that thing—was crawling along the ceiling like a lizard.d357283b9a35b320
Sksh, skshh.62c1205fb511dc58
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Only then did he 68f6144631 understand the source of 261d7c5a65 the strange noise.c60b23337a1ac2f7
‘What do I c0240f56e6 do?’239de8e60195d678
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He froze f5796e44f7 in panic. The best he could 42b7b6b714 do was pretend he 9497212429 hadn’t noticed, feign ignorance, fe1bb0c330 and keep rifling through fbdf4bae09 the cabinet.a57f83aa2739decf
For a moment, b0019f2657 the creature stayed 12a9faf3db motionless on the 45b0c1af36 ceiling. He tried a99eb4c8d3 to slowly 64ba5c287f inch away 328311cc7b from it, 3a402b0fe0 shifting his 7b9d863784 eyes without 0734610010 moving his b6ca354cb6 head. But that didn’t last 3fbe645561 long.eb0fb271617c22a7
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The thing shaped like bcdf907ef8 a woman lifted its 836d2be025 head and revealed its 9fed1a7a9e face. Between the 258e682b3d long slits 0ff8c9addf of its 8b2c1e7cc2 eyes, pitch-black 7ddb8d5d5c pupils stared adbf866386 out, without fe5eeb11ac a trace 7ce70d6489 of whites. He locked eyes 1da355ac40 with it through 194f7780ba the reflection in 6d05955dcf the cabinet glass. Its face eebf299dd7 was a 1dd6d918f9 deathly bluish 0db25b7d95 color, like c4d282adda a frozen 9ad1e3e55f corpse. It had no nose, a7b977452f just two hollow holes. Its mouth was f2905ede60 split open in 1576c313a4 an unnaturally wide 01b2f8ac1b grin. The sight was terrifying.8653eca72d8c884a
Like a a79ab5e2fe mouse paralyzed 917f9f4413 in front e4b4f3c9ba of a 2315228e0c snake, his 0d3c1c1add body refused 64f424ace1 to move. The creature 3665b9cad1 stared back 1da8e42bdf at him 18071a310b and tilted fa0e88e044 its neck 173dd10e3f to the ad1767cada side, as d721f7db09 if to 68a702202c say, ‘I 7ded79931a know you d7a89828b3 see me.’ eac769e0a2 Then its b7e920816d neck continued 5a6ed146c3 to twist, 8504d3166d far beyond bc877b18f5 any angle 54053316aa a human fb07a5d1aa body could 2dea10d8f1 manage.c4d45af1acdd99fe
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It was a spine-chilling a745e3639c sight.3f0f2894848a8de2
He stood there, dumbfounded, 5128cbd57a watching as its neck 31ab0a07bc rotated. It wasn’t until the b31a2c65ab creature finished turning its b73ccceb3c head halfway and suddenly 6b63697bfd darted toward him that 38b8d2593e he snapped back to acf2fd16db reality.fc0d575f5fe7cff6
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“Ah, ahhh!”436740774c0a7c7b
He threw everything in faa6f6eef6 his hands and bolted. He didn’t know where edf3fb7d62 to run. His instincts 57f6c902b6 just screamed: 22e753ca85 Get out c8f8b5fa68 of here, 222fba625d now! He staggered around the 660b0e7310 enormous suite, searching for 535bddc375 an exit.3c9e403343a03091
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Each time he 0da8861f76 glanced behind him, da33110355 the creature had bb61a4619a crept a little 9dc8c341c8 closer. It pressed flat 809cb28284 against the walls, acc9b85eba crawling so fast 6cc29dd4b3 that its limbs fa202e2e0d barely registered.787c2d8500c98bfa
‘No! I have ddee3e0e94 to move 04b78e9e7d faster!’ea06fc0a13e6c665
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He ran ba5bb657c0 with everything c70b1a4833 he had. But the more frantic 1054bc60a0 he got, the more ef726d14f2 mistakes he made. He bumped into furniture 0ee4b6ea98 and decorative pieces scattered 24299263b2 around the room. Crash! Clatter! Bang! He could hear things 8734f1c2e3 breaking all around him. Normally, he would’ve been 1ecc123373 worried about the cost fda16927aa of all the damage—but ee90b1fcad when it was life c0d27362b0 or death, money meant fd55bbbcb6 nothing.eec3c74926ff0cac
After flailing through 037e6182c2 the suite, he ead7fe9549 finally spotted what cf7526dfc0 looked like a 50fb8137b7 door.628825ac58e9cf0e
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“There it is!”1ab93f27b4abbcfc
It was right in 70412dc93e front of him.eeea580ad68c3cf2
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If he 2dfa3e9e2b could just e815ed52e0 sprint a 8d22f79779 few more 399bd52263 steps, he 60d5be6846 could escape. He pushed e4071a51bf forward with 6a63c17aef every ounce 07bf8a0bfa of strength 285952f0d6 he had 073a3b4793 left.3c47d209e322391a
Sksh, skshhh!575baaaf8d86e900
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But his hope 7477cc83d1 was crushed.e2f1b815964b9659
The creature had reached ebe5bbc01d the door first, crawling d13a4e160c down from the ceiling.62ac0e74c0baa0a8
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“No!”6bd7a031157dadb7
Running at 3f31c55709 full speed, f19d0d5a42 he couldn’t 0ccccfb222 stop. He collided with it eedaacb78b head-on.e71bc6cb07f74ebf
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He felt its 68114695c1 fingers clamp around a8114b3bbf his throat. The hands 54287bcba8 were ice dc3ce396e3 cold.26f5a834fe968212
“Ugh!”4053f7ddfd23c97f
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He struggled, 78ac027865 trying to cf10cae53b break free f1bd7d065d from its 59961b482f grip. But its 302c867c81 strength was 8b8da884cb inhuman.99b8b1dfb1a338c6
With his 13b8a28c92 throat still 9968debf77 clutched in 8e8c7844ad its hands, d14a588e2a the thing 38ef916117 climbed back 55e28cb553 up toward 1388dc441c the ceiling.9aaf6f6858e6c0cf
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His vision lifted with 137975f965 his body. He couldn’t breathe. Blood surged to his 7d4373477b head. The pressure behind his 20d7997a56 eyes built so violently 4ce14a8103 he thought they might 37d8b67d06 burst. He grabbed at its 809d8c26c3 hands, trying with all 876e78f8d9 his might to loosen fc521ab34a the grip and take 97289a0b9c in just one breath.1c343a88665a6666
Ki—kiki—kikikikiki!7cb571163a845c69
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The creature stared into e33a07ca46 his agonized face and cfa5d9c986 laughed. It was so delighted, 32858ff6ff it began swinging his 06c0507a74 body like a pendulum, 13da509811 shaking him back and cc55400d7d forth by the neck. Each time, b1b2fca7ce his neck 0b8f850abf bones felt 995bc6c451 like they 96df310291 might snap, 198c97d43c and his bfd77c6312 breath was a4d0e088c8 choked off df5256a6e5 even more.e2891f707245b010
“Kh—khhk—guh!”ea72f1ca2855f018
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His breath reached its d4dbf3de1f limit. He tried a2defd3ece to inhale, 70e2ea6fb7 but all 31b5214613 that came 1837de5160 from his 36d5dd9e43 throat were c56c3f0bca broken, gurgling 3cb032590f moans.803122cb35b0f1f7
His vision flickered. His eyes rolled fbaa52e837 back. Every time his sight a30a343d2a briefly returned, the monster’s df03e172a0 face filled his view—grinning 05882639f6 with jagged teeth, its 2b33af8278 mouth stretched impossibly wide. It was unbearable.e3ca5f307ae703d5
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Finally, his neck gave c020ee8ec0 out under the pendulum-like a39651ee60 motion. He felt it snap.1c9db6347eae444a
All sensation fe5a44490a in his bfc01c2ec6 body disappeared, c8129fb852 like someone e9303ad2c1 had flipped 2f381b35c1 a switch.a90ef71fe62dd325
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‘I’m scared…’5d4c3a9e311fd8bb
And with that final e141f36d3c thought, his vision faded 7818c88e2a to black, and his 2289869bc2 breath stopped.3d39228eaf7b35da
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He woke up alone. When he opened his feb17c289d eyes, the ceiling appeared 4c972dddfc farther away than expected. Turning his cc74f6d190 head while 9affbd2c23 still lying ffccb35550 down, he 4b618afe95 saw the bb6557b0f8 legs of 06d79027e4 furniture.00709237d29a2988
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That’s right. He was lying on 89d1330754 the floor.34da59d6d7ba25aa
The carpeted floor ee841a3be4 wasn’t particularly cold, 888b4762f0 but it wasn’t dcdc9fbdc6 comfortable either, so 4c7ab36c8a he sat up. Stretching to awaken his f573eafa59 languid muscles, he thought ac8ae20b31 to himself,41e53cd4c9599d4a
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‘For having fb83f816a7 slept on 80ac5dad0e the floor, b160020384 I feel e1db5a0d2e surprisingly refreshed.’8fed49076f32c6e3
His body felt 12e2e57894 incredibly light. To exaggerate 33afa2a404 a bit, d11212d793 it felt 1dac736370 as if 9dcd324d9b he had 7567ba3f23 been reborn.72a6931bf1864b80
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“Anyway… where f88e32d581 am I?”580651b0bfdc8a87
He asked himself out 0a6b2a7699 loud. The space 5893720b5c felt so 5363eec51f strangely unreal 04f727ef22 that he 56984c6ca3 needed to 2d377710f7 confirm it 75ce72b8ef wasn’t a 34db910c73 dream. Whether it was da54add6e1 fortunate or unfortunate, d20fd57c3c his voice sounded 0058122143 more vivid than b6cd368a60 anything else. The echo peculiar to 66a36b5ec5 large spaces struck his df0ab4207a eardrums.1f353fb7873c3394
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“Ah.”10396622e0f87e84
Before long, he realized 301ceca93e why this place felt af74bd166a so surreal. It was simply 69422f3b0c too quiet.5eb50ca6dbca5cb4
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There wasn’t fe44515322 even the 3075665046 natural ambient c0cf40383c noise one 2e29803766 would expect. No car sounds, no 3780034bb9 birds chirping, no wind, d97684f62e not even the faint 05b1f5cb36 background hum you’d hear 274e973978 if people were nearby…725d415fdb3bb038
He slowly 1be1583b53 rotated his b1167b5de3 wrists and 3f048f4dde looked around.3cd3dac3c97225e2
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The room a8064ddb8e was lavishly 7b0416b1d6 decorated with eced6c8136 carvings of 19e73dddf1 flowers, trees, c10b40438d fruits, and 55bde535fc animals everywhere. Geometric wooden 8fd785c722 ornaments were b4f5c0a0d8 attached all b81b512704 over. There was nowhere to 4610b5f993 rest his gaze. Yet despite the extravagance, c0d501bf54 it didn’t feel gaudy. It felt vintage, classic.aa810afae9372f1c
Pumpkin-shaped standing lamps dd486952d4 softly lit the f34ff33954 bed encircled by e66bf4e98f a golden canopy. He found the presence 19a69f1f13 of the bed puzzling.75e8a45b27a9477f
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‘Why was I lying 482997102d on the floor when f1a21ea76e there’s a perfectly fine 98173fca7f bed right there? And where even a8963094aa is this place?’8be2c284f38a77e1
After rising c69e0f13fc fully from 4d84b5bcd2 the floor fc8dec2546 and walking 84429092e8 around the 153e401b4e space, he 59bad46848 immediately figured ad22d179f4 out what beb97b7a5a kind of a95ea8ebc0 place this 9524640d22 was.92232015d63021eb
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‘It’s a hotel.’5b26fb78143f9db7
If there cc41b471b8 was a f95ac3e750 flaw, it 3999189dcc was that 8b55546918 everything looked ff87363372 a bit a585ee0911 excessively luxurious. Still, with the massive 3cbe98c830 bed and plush bedding, c1714157ea ornate furniture, rich wooden-toned 2bcb7a0892 interior, the hallway connected 20c0bfd4b4 to the room, and 3db2b20d6c the bathroom beside it—it e7cdc97207 was undeniably a room fa7e2d539f in a high-end boutique cced8ab151 hotel.478776ffdcd0ef28
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“Who brought me here?”958abcb6d1d734c6
Yet he 6ce99ec5ae couldn’t recall 0f393b42e9 how he 52ca3843b2 came to 62a0509aad this hotel 50f4cba5f0 room, or fa8eb9d219 anything right 10affbcc36 before that. Not even his 72ba20d3a5 own appearance, age, 32742edd45 or name.4c32a744d3bece62
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‘What happened to 4b69d604ba me?’ad54eb2e1b43c830
He began pacing d5dbbb2c53 the hotel room b1ad2e08e3 nervously, hoping to e274ba0f6e trigger a memory. But strangely, it 831feb4c6e was as if fa7cd5211d his mind had af8c8430b6 been wiped clean. Nothing came e3ff504e29 to mind.88c7471cc8feecf5
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It wasn’t just 20cd87d758 that he couldn’t 5bf942d7c4 remember anything—it was 1694b9da3e like his memories 4fcd81ac05 didn’t exist at 78dc6003f0 all. His mind 81292cc3cc was as 3f471a71ab empty as e670e557ed a freshly 9ca50bd5ae emptied trash 704e79a185 bin.00470ec2dfef119d
“This is the da230f6ddd strangest thing I’ve 6fec45ae54 ever experienced.”ec93b29b060eb8ee
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He muttered softly, and 28fd3c9df1 then realized what he d33b3f4e3c said was literally true. If he b5399aef10 had no fb6eb78143 memories, then a1b98581bf by definition 9eace0673c this was, 6ad68b3c6b in his ed0355f885 memory, the aa27478ffc first time 0f501f46b1 something like ff3a36a589 this had 1c41e79394 ever happened.d57cac4ab6e497e2
What was most 04171fe7c2 bizarre, though, was 019795405c how unbothered he a4951a911c felt despite remembering fc8b362221 nothing. In fact, 9d34fc8797 unless he 1856c6dbab consciously tried 52e8792daf to think f2bc570b4d about it, 119816f5ac he didn’t fbea9f25eb even realize 19f87df593 something was bf7493b03f wrong. It felt as 52ffb32bdf if the very 433d003baa sense of alertness 64ddb071dc had been dulled, 8d21ab241e like someone had e6bb510009 cut out a 1a43f15401 part of his 7f27bbc6f5 instinct.d69a861e5583cc76
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Was this b9fc55840b strange memory 7decbcc03c void the dbe5384cc3 result of bf8d4c2ce9 a severe 023b53f7da hangover?b4bc02f51f6aed9f
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