Boots pounded above while below, Aniya's heart was pounding in her chest.
The search had been quick but to Aniya it felt like it had gone on forever.
It felt like she could hear every movement they made, everything they disassembled to conduct the search, every single thing they took out of place.
Her mind replayed all the times she had returned home with blood on her dress and how she had neatly disposed of them as if she had known this moment would come. However, for the times she had just woken up and met herself in clean clothes, she was scared.
Had she neatly disposed of the evidence of those times too or had the thing that usually possessed her carried out a messy clean?
For this, Aniya was afraid.
"The monster has been here?" Zesika said once again, looking around absolutely worried. "You need to leave this house once they are over. Come and stay in the guest quarters in my house. You cannot stay here. What if the monster comes back?"
