CHAPTER FOURTEEN
The creatures pounded on the door again, and the wood-cracking noise I had heard before grew louder. The entrance was pushed inward an inch, and a few splintered pieces of door frame were thrown onto the floor.
The back of my knees bumped into front of the couch, and I reached behind to catch myself. My hand grasped the arm of the couch, and a small puff of dust rose up. My eyes widened as an idea struck me, and I whipped my head around to face Duncan.
“Monsters are just like us, right?” I asked him.
He half-turned and raised an eyebrow at me. “What do you mean?”
I raised up my dust-covered hand with my palm turned upward. “They sneeze, don’t they?”
Duncan looked down at my palm and his eyebrows raised just slightly. A crooked smile slipped onto his lips as he
