CHAPTER 44
Ellie
A loud pop filled my ears and I screamed in terror as the platform shook and another thread of wiring unraveled itself from the only cable that was holding up this end of the platform.
I frantically looked over the edge and wrapped both hands around the railing I’d been clinging to, trying to hang on with everything I had.
The man who said he’d come to save me was still reaching out his hand to me, even though the horrible shadow creature was back again, its feet somehow balanced perfectly on the platform that hung at a steeply sloping angle.
“Ellie! Take my hand!” the man shouted at me and I looked up with pure terror in my eyes. I didn’t know him. He said I should know him, but I didn’t. I shut my eyes tightly trying to make sense of what was happening around me
