Valerie
The windows were blocked out.
I had been staring out through the glass at the lush forest outside, when Cliff hit a button on his door, and suddenly, there was only black staring back at me. Black and my own reflection.
What was this? Some kind of privacy screen?
“You aren’t going to love what you see in a moment,” Lucas had warned me upon entering the limo. Maybe he was telling the truth, because clearly, I was not allowed to see outside.
And yet, I heard sounds that terrified me.
They came through, creeping over the rumbling of the engine, like ghosts howling echoes of haunting things in my ears. Low, grating voices. Growls and shrieks and screams that came and went in passing.
I did not know what was happening beyond these blackened windows, but I was certain now that I d
