They were in the master
bedroom again with the bleeding skeleton. They dodged the squirming piles of worms and
repeated what they had done in the last room: opened the second door while
holding the first door open. They continued this way through the room with the
bloody swimming pool and the living room with its bloody walls, until they
returned to the main staircase.
Linda raced down the
staircase. She realized that she wasn’t
getting any closer to the front door. The stairs had somehow dug a deep
passageway into the floor, creating a long underground tunnel below the house. She stopped short in confusion and peered down the dark hole. There was no light or any end in sight.
“Stop running! And turn
around! Try crawling up the tunnel!” Todd shouted from behind her in the tunnel.
Linda began to crawl back
up the slippery rocks of the tunnel’s jagged walls. She joined them. They climbed up each rock by sharp rock.
Almost at the top, they
were hit by a strong wind blowing in from the entrance. Their hold weakened on
the slippery walls and they plummeted deeper into the dark abyss. Creatures reached
out for them from within the walls, their empty eye sockets leering at them. Their
elongated mouths were held wide open in a soundless cry. Long arms stretched out
to them, waiting to catch the terrified victims as they fell to their death.
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