The inside of the building was moist from rain, cold and becoming dark due
to the clouds washing in from the west. As Robyn entered, Laura clenched
her hand tightly, and made a slight whimpering noise. Suddenly, a voice
came from Robyn's radio again... It was James.
"What's wrong Laura?" he asked, "You never used to get scared so easily" his voice was harsh, cold and unfeeling. James had never sounded like that.
"I've been here too long!" Laura screamed at the radio, "Don't be so mean, James... You never used to be so mean!"
Her voice echoed for a moment throughout the empty, half-built reception area of the building, where a desk sat over the other side of the room. Now there was a silence, and Laura was huddling even closer to Robyn as the room became darker, and darker until it was pitch black.
"I'm scared" Laura whispered,
"Me too" Robyn replied simply, clenching the rusted pipe with all her might.
Suddenly, without warning, the room filled with light, as if in a silent explosion. Robyn took a moment to recuperate from the blinding light, and the painful squeeze Laura had given her.
There was a small pocket-lamp on the desk, which had switched itself on. But the desk, and the rest of the room, looked different to how they had a moment ago. The floor was now made of thick, rusted metal grating, and the walls were covered with a pulsating flesh-like substance. A World War II, air-raid siren begun to wail in the distance like hundreds of screaming children.
"Oh no" Laura yelped, clinging to Robyn ever-tighter, "We have to hide... NOW!"
"What it is?" Robyn asked frantically, "What's happening?"
"We've entered the 'other' world" Laura shouted over the air-raid siren, "This is where the monsters live"
The siren died down to silence, so that footsteps above could be heard stumbling around every now and then. The shadows cast from the pocket-lamp looked terrifying in this new world. But still, Robyn picked it up, and placed it in the breast pocket of her raincoat.
"Let's go outside" Robyn ordered, trying to pull Laura back through the main doors, but Laura screamed, and pulled Robyn back again
"No!" She yelled, "It's even worse out there! The big ones live out there!"
"Okay, alright" Robyn said calmingly, stroking Laura's head, "Stay calm, we'll find another way out of here, okay?"
Laura nodded, and wiped the tears away from her eyes as she bit her lip, stared at Robyn with childish innocence.
"The controls for the boating-ramp are on the eighth floor, but we'll have to use three separate elevators to get there, and I think the door might be locked," she explained, pulling out a pocket-watch from her dungaree pocket and looking at the hands... They'd stopped. "It's nearly time"
"Time?" Robyn asked, kneeling down to Laura's eye-level, "Time for what?"
"I'll have to go to school soon," Laura explained eerily, putting the broken watch back in her pocket. She suddenly seemed to return to normal, and grabbed Robyn's hands, "Come on, Robyn"
She tugged Robyn over to an elevator behind the reception desk. The elevator was made of dozens of rusted metal bars intertwining, and covered in blood with carvings in the rust.
Laura turned to a pad near the elevator entrance, and pressed a button, waited for a moment, and then, with a shudder, the elevator started to move upward, passing by bodies and limbs caught up in the framework of the building, and the pylons.
Eventually the lift stopped, the doors opened, and all Robyn could see in front of her eyes... Was hell.
"What's wrong Laura?" he asked, "You never used to get scared so easily" his voice was harsh, cold and unfeeling. James had never sounded like that.
"I've been here too long!" Laura screamed at the radio, "Don't be so mean, James... You never used to be so mean!"
Her voice echoed for a moment throughout the empty, half-built reception area of the building, where a desk sat over the other side of the room. Now there was a silence, and Laura was huddling even closer to Robyn as the room became darker, and darker until it was pitch black.
"I'm scared" Laura whispered,
"Me too" Robyn replied simply, clenching the rusted pipe with all her might.
Suddenly, without warning, the room filled with light, as if in a silent explosion. Robyn took a moment to recuperate from the blinding light, and the painful squeeze Laura had given her.
There was a small pocket-lamp on the desk, which had switched itself on. But the desk, and the rest of the room, looked different to how they had a moment ago. The floor was now made of thick, rusted metal grating, and the walls were covered with a pulsating flesh-like substance. A World War II, air-raid siren begun to wail in the distance like hundreds of screaming children.
"Oh no" Laura yelped, clinging to Robyn ever-tighter, "We have to hide... NOW!"
"What it is?" Robyn asked frantically, "What's happening?"
"We've entered the 'other' world" Laura shouted over the air-raid siren, "This is where the monsters live"
The siren died down to silence, so that footsteps above could be heard stumbling around every now and then. The shadows cast from the pocket-lamp looked terrifying in this new world. But still, Robyn picked it up, and placed it in the breast pocket of her raincoat.
"Let's go outside" Robyn ordered, trying to pull Laura back through the main doors, but Laura screamed, and pulled Robyn back again
"No!" She yelled, "It's even worse out there! The big ones live out there!"
"Okay, alright" Robyn said calmingly, stroking Laura's head, "Stay calm, we'll find another way out of here, okay?"
Laura nodded, and wiped the tears away from her eyes as she bit her lip, stared at Robyn with childish innocence.
"The controls for the boating-ramp are on the eighth floor, but we'll have to use three separate elevators to get there, and I think the door might be locked," she explained, pulling out a pocket-watch from her dungaree pocket and looking at the hands... They'd stopped. "It's nearly time"
"Time?" Robyn asked, kneeling down to Laura's eye-level, "Time for what?"
"I'll have to go to school soon," Laura explained eerily, putting the broken watch back in her pocket. She suddenly seemed to return to normal, and grabbed Robyn's hands, "Come on, Robyn"
She tugged Robyn over to an elevator behind the reception desk. The elevator was made of dozens of rusted metal bars intertwining, and covered in blood with carvings in the rust.
Laura turned to a pad near the elevator entrance, and pressed a button, waited for a moment, and then, with a shudder, the elevator started to move upward, passing by bodies and limbs caught up in the framework of the building, and the pylons.
Eventually the lift stopped, the doors opened, and all Robyn could see in front of her eyes... Was hell.