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being careful to keep her hand low and next to the bloody tub. When the giant didn’t notice she reached further until she could get her fingers around the jar.
Slowly, she lifted the jar and began to pull it back into the room.
She had almost cleared the door with the jar when a tremor in her hand knocked the jar into the edge of the door.
Quickly she snatched her hand into the darkness and held her breath. A second later, something hard smacked against the door and dropped to the floor.
“Goddamned rats!” the giant freak said. “You’d think they’d have all died off by now, wouldn’t you, sweetie?” he said.
A hard, loud “thunk!” made Sadie jump, but she realized the giant had gone back to his butchery.
Sadie stood and straightened up and looked around.
The door slightly behind her looked inviting. It was partially open, and the room beyond it was quiet. So Sadie lifted the ball jar until her hand was next to the deep pocket of her parka. She worked it down inside the thick fabric.
A clang sounded inside the slaughter room and Sadie jerked in sudden fear. But then the giant began humming.
“Gonna take a lotta blood,” he sang, and Sadie lifted her pack one handed and stepped back from the door of the slaughter room, moving slowly, lifting her leg and easing it backward, putting her toes down softly and hoping her heel wasn’t about to crush an unbroken glass slide or vial.
After several anxious backward steps she reached the door. Still holding her pack in one hand and her shotgun in the other, Sadie eased into the darkened room.
She stood and waited for her eyes to adjust, but they didn’t. There simply wasn’t enough light spilling in from the supply room. She was in the dark, unsure whether she should risk the flashlight or try to navigate by touch.
She took a few quiet steps, keeping the back of her shotgun hand against a wall. But the pace was too slow. It would take her an hour to get out of there, and that was too long.
Sadie knelt and rested her pack on the floor. She unzipped it slowly, wincing with each seemingly explosive click of the metallic teeth. She brought out her flashlight and turned it on, then shoved the potassium nitrate down next to the Radex box.
She was in another biology lab, with its work table islands spread around the room. She shined her light around, careful to keep it pointed away from the door she’d come through.
The room was nearly empty, most of its useful items destroyed or carried away. So Sadie left, taking quiet steps that took her out to another hallway perpendicular to the long main ground floor hallway.
Seconds later she’d reentered the main hallway and was ready to sprint for the exit. But her grandfather’s voice came again.
“You’re safe for now,” he said.
Sadie stood where she was and took several deep breaths—each one a vinegar-laden horror. Then she walked away from the doors she’d come in, stepping softly until she got to the other end of the building.
Another set of doors were in front of her, a mirror image of the other side of the building—minus the blood splatter and drag marks and dust.
This end of the building looked mostly undisturbed, with little dust on the floor. Beyond the building an open dust field led to the baseball stadium and the dead green belt at the edge of campus.
Safety awaited her beyond those trees, but she wasn’t ready to leave. She looked right to where a pair of double doors with stair signs awaited.
“Do what you came here to do,” her grandfather’s voice said, and she turned and walked toward the stairwell doors.
Chapter 6
Sadie found the Chemistry Department on the top floor of building. It was on the opposite end from where she’d started.
She’d explored every floor of the building working through the Astronomy Department, the Physics
Slowly, she lifted the jar and began to pull it back into the room.
She had almost cleared the door with the jar when a tremor in her hand knocked the jar into the edge of the door.
Quickly she snatched her hand into the darkness and held her breath. A second later, something hard smacked against the door and dropped to the floor.
“Goddamned rats!” the giant freak said. “You’d think they’d have all died off by now, wouldn’t you, sweetie?” he said.
A hard, loud “thunk!” made Sadie jump, but she realized the giant had gone back to his butchery.
Sadie stood and straightened up and looked around.
The door slightly behind her looked inviting. It was partially open, and the room beyond it was quiet. So Sadie lifted the ball jar until her hand was next to the deep pocket of her parka. She worked it down inside the thick fabric.
A clang sounded inside the slaughter room and Sadie jerked in sudden fear. But then the giant began humming.
“Gonna take a lotta blood,” he sang, and Sadie lifted her pack one handed and stepped back from the door of the slaughter room, moving slowly, lifting her leg and easing it backward, putting her toes down softly and hoping her heel wasn’t about to crush an unbroken glass slide or vial.
After several anxious backward steps she reached the door. Still holding her pack in one hand and her shotgun in the other, Sadie eased into the darkened room.
She stood and waited for her eyes to adjust, but they didn’t. There simply wasn’t enough light spilling in from the supply room. She was in the dark, unsure whether she should risk the flashlight or try to navigate by touch.
She took a few quiet steps, keeping the back of her shotgun hand against a wall. But the pace was too slow. It would take her an hour to get out of there, and that was too long.
Sadie knelt and rested her pack on the floor. She unzipped it slowly, wincing with each seemingly explosive click of the metallic teeth. She brought out her flashlight and turned it on, then shoved the potassium nitrate down next to the Radex box.
She was in another biology lab, with its work table islands spread around the room. She shined her light around, careful to keep it pointed away from the door she’d come through.
The room was nearly empty, most of its useful items destroyed or carried away. So Sadie left, taking quiet steps that took her out to another hallway perpendicular to the long main ground floor hallway.
Seconds later she’d reentered the main hallway and was ready to sprint for the exit. But her grandfather’s voice came again.
“You’re safe for now,” he said.
Sadie stood where she was and took several deep breaths—each one a vinegar-laden horror. Then she walked away from the doors she’d come in, stepping softly until she got to the other end of the building.
Another set of doors were in front of her, a mirror image of the other side of the building—minus the blood splatter and drag marks and dust.
This end of the building looked mostly undisturbed, with little dust on the floor. Beyond the building an open dust field led to the baseball stadium and the dead green belt at the edge of campus.
Safety awaited her beyond those trees, but she wasn’t ready to leave. She looked right to where a pair of double doors with stair signs awaited.
“Do what you came here to do,” her grandfather’s voice said, and she turned and walked toward the stairwell doors.
Chapter 6
Sadie found the Chemistry Department on the top floor of building. It was on the opposite end from where she’d started.
She’d explored every floor of the building working through the Astronomy Department, the Physics
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