Ch. 29

"Hi…I like you too, now Julia needs some space.", I said, gently pushing him away.

He did so, surprisingly easily, and cocked his head. I could only see his silhouette, but just barely.

Then he walked past me and motioned for me to follow him.

"What?"

He said nothing, and walked down the badly lit hallway. I shrugged and followed him, running my claws on the pipes on the wall, causing it to shriek. Freddy winced at the noise, and gritted his teeth.

Eventually, we got to this small room, furnished with a small round table, cluttered with boxes, and there was one small window at the top of the north wall, showing me that the bottom of the window came to level with the ground.

Freddy ignored all this, and went to a cabinet. He opened it, and took out something that looked like a human. I flinched, and instinctively held up my glove to protect me from the unknown object.

He sighed when he saw my reaction, and held up the thing, which turned out to be a mannequin, so that I could see it properly.

I lowered my hand so I could watch as Freddy dragged the mannequin, which was dressed in tennis shoes, jeans, and a loose t-shirt, to the table. He hoisted it up onto the table, and turned to me and said, "Well, you're going to have to learn how to kill somehow."

Confused, I said, "But I already know-"

"No. You know how to slaughter. I'm going to teach you how to kill."

"What's the difference?"

"Slaughtering is killing an opponent that either won't or can't fight back, as you did with that girl. I'm going to teach you how to kill, which is killing an opponent that will fight back."

"But, in that case, you slaughter all the time."

He chuckled, with his back to me, and said, "Yes… But, in case, you run into another…person" (by "person", I knew he meant killer) "you'll need to be taught how to fight."

"But why can't you or Jason or Michael teach me?"

"So many questions…", he whispered, and turned to me, a sad look on his face. "Julia, if one of us was to lose control while teaching you, we'd think we were in an actual fight and we would kill you."