That Thing At the Zoo - 01
“It reaches deep inside you and wraps its tiny fingers around your soul, making you instinctively need to help.
It started softly, hard to hear over the water running through the tunnel. Relentlessly it rose and fell, the loneliest sound in the universe. The world closed down around that cry. It rolled around me, plaintive and desperate. The baby needed, and the father in me rose up wanting to save it. All the while my blood ran cold through my veins.
Slowly I turned to look down the tunnel, ver...tebrae grinding against each other with tension. I traced the flashlight down until it shone on the pile of stuff the Nosferatu had been kneeling beside a moment ago.
The cries were coming from the pile.
Slowly, one foot in front of the other, I moved down the tunnel. It looked like a pile of rags spilling up the curved concrete wall. It was thick, different textures wadded together with scraps trailing around it. The flashlight quivered over it with each step closer. The baby cries began to get louder, becoming brittle and shrill.MoreLess
It started softly, hard to hear over the water running through the tunnel. Relentlessly it rose and fell, the loneliest sound in the universe. The world closed down around that cry. It rolled around me, plaintive and desperate. The baby needed, and the father in me rose up wanting to save it. All the while my blood ran cold through my veins.
Slowly I turned to look down the tunnel, ver...tebrae grinding against each other with tension. I traced the flashlight down until it shone on the pile of stuff the Nosferatu had been kneeling beside a moment ago.
The cries were coming from the pile.
Slowly, one foot in front of the other, I moved down the tunnel. It looked like a pile of rags spilling up the curved concrete wall. It was thick, different textures wadded together with scraps trailing around it. The flashlight quivered over it with each step closer. The baby cries began to get louder, becoming brittle and shrill.MoreLess
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