Chapters (51)
“There’s a door here,” she said. “It’s sealed somehow.”
She was right. There was no handle or lock, and when she pushed on it, it didn’t budge.
“There’s another one here.” Roth tipped the torch to his right. “We’re going to see a lot of doors and they’re probably best left closed.”
“It has to be fifty degrees cooler down here.” Zayne looked up at the ceiling as we passed yet another opening into a dark corridor. “Do you feel anything?”
“No. I feel nothing.”
“That doesn’t mean we won’t find anything,” he reasoned.
“I don’t understand, though.” We passed more doors made of stone and easy to miss. “I know I saw something written on those walls.”
“Could it have been dirt?” Roth asked.
“I don’t think so, but Hell, I don’t know. I really thought this would lead us to something.”
Zayne touched my arm. “It did. You discovered who the Harbinger is.”
“Yeah, but...” It was hard explaining the disappointment I was feeling. I didn’t know what I’d been expecting to find, but an endless maze of tunnels wasn’t it.
“One of these tunnels, I’m betting, leads directly into the school.” Roth stopped and stepped back as he looked both east and west. “Probably opens up in the old lower gymnasium and locker area.”
“Where the Nightcrawlers were?” Zayne asked, and I shuddered.
“Would explain a lot of things, like how that zombie got into the boiler room that one time,” Roth said. “We never figured out how it got into the school without being seen.”
“God, don’t remind me,” Layla groaned. “I’m still not emotionally or mentally over that and the popping eyeballs.”
My lip curled. “There’s got to be a hundred different doors and tunnels branching off down here. How in the world do we find the one connected to the school?”
“We don’t need to.” Zayne lifted his torch toward the ceiling. “At least not right now. We don’t need these tunnels to get into the school. When the workers aren’t here Saturday, we can walk right through the front doors. Or one of the doors. Windows. Whatever.”
“Oh, yeah. Good point. Duh,” I said.
Zayne grinned at me and returned to scanning the ceiling for the damn marks.
“Finding which one of these connects and destroying it would be beneficial. Might not stop spirits or ghosts from getting in or out,” Roth mused. “But will stop demons and the Harbinger. I’ll have some of my people check it out, find the entrance and blow it up.”
“You have people?” My brows raised. “Fancy.”
“I’m the Crown Prince,” he replied. “I have legions of demons who serve me.”
“Oh,” I murmured. “Super fancy then.”