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You’re
running. The storm howls and crashes. Branches snap with a sound like
breaking bones. Rain whips across your face, stinging, cold, blinding.
You are chilled to the bone, but you cannot stop. You don’t dare. Lightning
strikes, a blow from the hammers of Hell. The storm wails, a demonic
hunt, and you can feel the breath of the ravening hounds on the back
of your neck.
You
stumble, you nearly fall. You open your mouth, gasping for breath, and
the rain fills it and you choke, you can’t breathe, you turn your eyes
towards Heaven and you see them. Lights, glimmering in the distance.
Windows.
You
run. The storm is right behind you. Branches claw at you like the bony
hands of the dead. The roar of the thunder deafens you and the lightning
fills your eyes with blinding fire and you scream, reaching out for
the impossible hope of salvation.
Your
fingers close over a ring of cold iron. A doorknocker. You pull the
great ring back. Once, twice, three times it booms on the massive wooden
door.
You
wait, shivering, as the storm rages around you, hungry and savage. You
hear the sound of a bolt being thrown. Slowly the door begins to open,
with a sound like the shrieks of the damned. There are two figures in
the entryway, figures you can’t quite see. Their eyes glitter in the
darkness...
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