Frozen
“Before he called the crime lab in, before he turned the place into a circus, he had to get it fresh, get whatever he could get. Finally he went back over to the front door.
Careful not to arouse any suspicions from nosy neighbors, he slipped outside, then descended the narrow steps. The cool, moist air on his face was a hideous taunting slap. He went over to the car.
He dug the briefcase out of the suit bag with trembling hands. His tools were in there—he needed them now. He needed them to thin...k.
Back up the steps. Back inside. The clunk of the dead bolt sealing him in that horrible silent mess.
The writing on the wall disturbed him the most, fixated him the most. He couldn’t bring himself to think about Maura’s blood loss. The realization swam around like a shark beneath the hectic currents of his consciousness—that was her blood up there, across the floor.
There was a lot of it.
Most of the writing was illegible—slash marks, smudges, and splatter patterns—but some of the words or fragments of words scrawled like crimson ribbons across the plaster molding and baseboards strummed a familiar chord inside Grove: un una gu susa unna se enu un enuna— —the same diphthongs and sibilants that had spewed out of the rotting mouth of a madman in a cave.MoreLess
Careful not to arouse any suspicions from nosy neighbors, he slipped outside, then descended the narrow steps. The cool, moist air on his face was a hideous taunting slap. He went over to the car.
He dug the briefcase out of the suit bag with trembling hands. His tools were in there—he needed them now. He needed them to thin...k.
Back up the steps. Back inside. The clunk of the dead bolt sealing him in that horrible silent mess.
The writing on the wall disturbed him the most, fixated him the most. He couldn’t bring himself to think about Maura’s blood loss. The realization swam around like a shark beneath the hectic currents of his consciousness—that was her blood up there, across the floor.
There was a lot of it.
Most of the writing was illegible—slash marks, smudges, and splatter patterns—but some of the words or fragments of words scrawled like crimson ribbons across the plaster molding and baseboards strummed a familiar chord inside Grove: un una gu susa unna se enu un enuna— —the same diphthongs and sibilants that had spewed out of the rotting mouth of a madman in a cave.MoreLess
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