Will saw the dead and the shadows and heard Nico's labored breaths. They covered the lights, covered the cameras, covered his earpiece. They ran up Nico's legs, over his wrapped ear, over his restrained arms. They wanted him out they wanted him out they wanted him out

They didn't speak to him but he heard their whispers.

Run run run

Run for us

run, you can get out!

he'll help you get out

RUN

They blocked the door and his heart raced but he knew what he had to do. The shadows told him what he was already thinking. He ran to Nico, knew Case 142 wasn't crazy but a victim, took the straitjacket off and pulled him to his feet.

"We need to go."

He thought about their plans, what they were going to do to him, how his brain was going to get jumbled and ruined and destroyed. He liked Case 142. And he knew why.

He was still him. A lobotomy hadn't gotten him yet.

But they needed to run. They needed to run. The dead warned of what killed them.