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Chapter 8 - Chapter 7

The leaders went onto crushing the spell, to start moving again - to capture Aya.

She ran, but the office was out of reach. People broke out of spell and started to chase her. She was running away, from corner to corner, then up the infinity stairs. On and on, to the outer wall where the stairs lead.

Outer wall - cornered to the wall, standing on the stairs, the three people had her on that edge.

Aya began humming the melody - the piano tune was insistently playing in her head.

Then she saw the people on the sun lit street, it was sunset time, evening in summer.

The boy and girl walked. He held a small flute, playing the tune on it.

Raphael managed to squeezed out the window.

"Hey you!" - Raphael shouted to boy. - "Do you have 5 ro? Can you give me?"

The boy shrugged, then smiled and pulled out a piece of paper - 5 ro.

"Thanks." - Said Raphael, as he grabbed the paper. Then he threw the 5 ro to Aya, she grabbed it and stuffed in her mouth - eating it.

Then the chasers stepped aside, having her way to run.

And she ran to the main entrance - the halls were now looking more and more grey, the dust and the endless rubbish everywhere began emerging.

She ran towards the ticket office, the windows of office covered in dust and yellow marks. She pushed open the side shelf unit, pulling out the guest pillows and curtains that were falling apart, she pulled out the shelves, throwing them aside, then pushed the back of the unit - it gave her way towards the entrance hall.

She pushed door and was out on the street, she ran towards the area where the boy had to be with the girl.

But then the rain caught her of guard. It was raining. She stopped.

Her abrupt breathing, her eyes darting from thing to thing, her heart thumping in her chest.

Then as she listened into the rain, as she observed how things had changed, and how the same street was no longer same - the time somehow stopped for her.

Just her eyes, tracing the rainy streets. Her bare feet in the puddle.

Then it downed on her. The tears poured endlessly, she cried out, shouting and weeping in her weakness.

The memories came flooding.

From the moment she was abducted, how she got strapped inside the Chapel, how she was raped and abused days and days, over and over, lack of food, drinks, how her voice withered and how she was surrounded by the leftovers of once living humans. The bones of people around, the bloodied curtains, the stabbings and shouts of Levin.

Shaking in cold rain - she knew she no longer was alive. A ghost, spirit, freed by a random human for 5 ro…

She looked back at Chapel...

"The endless victims who died here, the killers who were murdered in these walls - they were all there… Still bound to this hell place." - Her voice now sounded only in her head.