Monster (2015)
“So desperate was she to find and kill the Beast, just to stand out and be counted at Bathory, she’d been going outside, night after night, after we’d all gone to sleep, trying to catch it. Luring it with tidbits and stolen meat from the school freezers. The thing I didn’t get though was the dead sheep. I believed her when she said she hadn’t killed it and put it there. And she’d said it wasn’t there when she’d first gone out. So who had put it there? Was she right; was it trying to teach us in ...some way? Or was it trying to threaten us? And if so, what would it put there next?
I had a dream in the night that the phone was working. I dreamed I heard it ringing and its ring echoed all the way up Long Corridor. At first light, I was up and washed and dressed and rushing down Main Stairs to check it.
But it was still dead.
Then I heard a noise in the kitchens, a knocking noise. I went to investigate, but everything was still—no one about and everything was as it should be. Leftover cakes and crisps under cling-filmed paper plates on the big metal table, Brody lying down in one of the utility rooms.MoreLess
I had a dream in the night that the phone was working. I dreamed I heard it ringing and its ring echoed all the way up Long Corridor. At first light, I was up and washed and dressed and rushing down Main Stairs to check it.
But it was still dead.
Then I heard a noise in the kitchens, a knocking noise. I went to investigate, but everything was still—no one about and everything was as it should be. Leftover cakes and crisps under cling-filmed paper plates on the big metal table, Brody lying down in one of the utility rooms.MoreLess
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