Beneath the whispers

Chapter 29

We signed up for a game and we are going to play just that. we are in a town that is infested by demons and the story is linked with the creepy mansion on the outskirt.

We need to uncover whatever it is that happened to the family that owned the mansion and lay the twins spirit to rest so we can leave and go home

Except that we intend to let our kidnappers think that while we truly look for a way out of here

A lot of things are involved in our leaving, one was the buried charms that sealed us in the village, another was the shadows that took people based on facts we don’t know yet. And the most important is what separates us from the outside world where we all came from

The organizers of the game will not let us get to civilization or we will create questions that would be directed at them

The puzzle though is that, there has to be a reason we were each selected for this game

There has to be a reason we were targets because in order to stay hidden they had to somehow keep our being missing hidden which would involve some kind of cover up. These are just assumptions and just like Willow says, some could turn out to be true

After getting to Willow’s hut, we had eventually agreed that he takes me to wherever it was that he claimed would make us believe him and because all of us tagging along will make us easily detectable, we agreed that I would be going with him alone – well, until Tony insisted on coming with us

And from this time forward, our true meetings are to be held in his hut and away from the cameras while we also make them believe what we want them to. This will give us the advantage we need to win this battle

Willow had taken us hours into the village and instead of going through the tunnel, we took the high grass area and now we have to be extra careful because grasses can give us out to whoever we were hiding from

“Wait” Willow whispers to us and we squat, allowing the grass to cover us. He slowly push some leaves aside and we try to look through the tiny hole he made

After a few feet of just grass, is a little free land with dark loose moist soil – which proves that the land was intentionally cleared. We cannot see further because of the down slope that curved up some miles from us and the other side is just like this side

“we have to be sure no one is coming before we move further” Willow announces with a whisper

“and we are supposed to know just by sitting here?” Tony counters him, not bothering to lower his voice

“yes, luck has a part to play though” Willow says

“and if we get caught?” Tony whispers this time

“we will be at the mercy of whoever it is that is behind all this” Willow declares with a sarcastic grin

“you must be out of your mind” Tony whisper-yells. I agree with him - I just think it is in a good way

“I have been here long enough to lose my mind. So you either cut your crap and increase our chance of survival or have at it with me until we get caught” Willow whispers back at him with a scowl.

He was done playing and Tony fumes at him raising his finger to say something

“Guys” they both look at me “enough bickering and Willow, don’t talk to him like that again” Tony is only doing this because he is paranoid and I too don't get why Willow is so calm

The sound of grass from halfway to the other end interrupts whatever it was Willow was about to say

We quickly turn towards the noise and freeze. A man is carrying a body bag, he walks close enough to the pit and pours a green liquid on the bag and then when the bag gets inflamed he kicks it down the pit and pours extra liquid inside making the fire burn more violently

He sits still on the dark soil watching the flames as if to make sure it burns completely “what should we do?” I whisper to the boys behind me but when I get no response I turn around and they are not behind me – what the hell?

I turned to the man and they are apprehending him already. Tony is directly on top of the man and Willow is trying to hold his kicking leg still. I sprint from the grass towards them

The man wiggled and wiggled in their firm grip but they don’t let go and the next thing he starts to convulse, spilling white foamy liquid from his mouth.

Tony tilts him to his side and cups his cheeks in frustration uttering what I didn’t hear until I was close enough “don’t die you prick!” I heard him say and willow had already left the man’s legs and steps back from him watching Tony struggle with the man like he knew what the outcome would be

“Leave him man, he is dead” he says with his hand on his head. I hurried to the man and on grab his hand. his cold body made me rip my hand off him, I hold Tony and drag him from the man’s body and he sits beside the man gazing at him with full on resentment

“we need to get his body out of here or they will know we have found this place” Willow says and I gape at him – I didn’t know we are going to start hiding dead bodies “this happens to them when they encounter us and I don’t know why” he continues “but we still need to act fast”

it was nice though that we went with Willow because if he didn’t say all this, I will just sit with Tony and gape at the dead body in shock and probably only realized that I would have moved the body after I had returned to the hotel

Willow hurries over the body and pulls on his both hand “I need a hand here” he grunts from the man's weight

Tony snaps back to reality and immediately starts to move the body with willow and I look out for them after removing the foam that had spewed on the dark soil and follow them back to the grass

“where are we taking him?” I ask

“somewhere we are more likely to see him… in the farm” Willow says through his teeth

“isn’t that supposed to be faraway from here” Tony ask. He slows down and is panting already

“nope it isn’t. that woman use to come here from the farm. I wanted to show you the burnt bodies and as luck would have it, you saw a whole lot more” Willow grunts again from the weight of the body

After several minutes of dragging the body through the grass area, we dumped it a bit into the farm so his people will come find him – I did think we should have planted someone there to watch for whoever would come for the body but it was too risky because we didn’t know the capabilities of the people we were up against.

Maybe they can detect people nearby and if they so much as glance at us, it would raise an alarm to our opponent whether or not we make them convulse to death