forty four
Rema was the first. Up the first flight of stairs. The darkness of the hallway loomed large. They were on the landing. On that vague patch of stone that was between the stairs and the hallway. Tens of hands rushed out from the darkness, like a swarm, grabbed him and pulled him away. In that one moment, when the hands got him and before he got pulled away, Gamble was there, alongside Rema. And then, gone. “Go!” The scream was all Rema left behind. The remaining two continued up the stairs. By the time Rain paused, to realise she was alone, she had climbed more flights than she remembered the count of. And even now it didn’t occur to her that it was impossible. The building just wasn’t tall enough. Or maybe it did. And the extraordinariness of the whole situation erased the sharp edg
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