14 A Dead End (1/2)
Haru was a strange one, I thought to myself as I followed behind him. He'd changed out of the t-shirt that he'd be wearing and had exchanged it for a button down shirt and a black leather jacket.I happen to catch the glittering insides of his coat, it was full of knives.
Dangerous fellow for sure, however, he was kind of sweet. Maybe, it was my lack of human interaction. I think it had been about a day since I'd gotten into this world, I wasn't actually quite sure.
Time seemed to flow differently here, well maybe not time. My body didn't seem to need sleep, it felt like I could have been up all day and night and would still feel fine. It was a bit odd, to say the least.
”Alice, what other places have you been to?” Haru asked suddenly. He cast a glance over his shoulder, his golden eyes were wide open now, the black bags under his eyes were still pretty pronounced.
”Places?” I asked I didn't know what he meant by that. Turning my head, I look into one of the abandoned room to avoid his piercing gaze. It was like he could see right through me with those eyes of his.
”Well have you been to any other worlds, so far in the Million World Game?” He asks as he climbs over a broken bit of wall. Turning around he offers a hand to me and I take it, his hands were actually a good deal bigger than mine. He was also a foot and half taller than me and I was actually pretty tall, I thought.
”None, this is the only world I've been on,” I say grabbing his hand, he helps me over the rubble and we continued our march onwards through the hospital. We're currently heading back towards the are that the lady had led me to before. Haru thought there might be something there or that it could potentially hold a clue to how to escape this place. I was a little worried, to see the dead body of the woman, that the lady had mutilated.
”I thought as much, have you met any other Players other than me yet?” He continued. I turned my attention to his back, it was wide and made me feel a little bit better, this was the first time I felt relatively safe since coming to this place.
We were nearing the crossroads that I had left the lady at he held his hand up signaling for me to wait. He poked his head around the corner and looked for signs of the lady. I held my breath, keeping a firm grip on my sword.
He pulled his head back and gave me a small smile, before walking out.
”I can't be sure, but a woman may be. She died before I could ask her about anything.” I responded keeping my guard up.
Looking around, I noticed that the woman dead body wasn't lying in the hallway anymore and her head was nowhere to be seen. Just a huge bloodstain that had been left unattended on the floor. Walking forward, I look in the room, it was still covered in bloodstain and other fluids. Yet, still no sight of her body.
”Is this her blood?” Haru asked me, bending down running a finger through the bloodstain on the floor. His finger coming back covered in sticky blood. He rubbed the index and his thumb together before he whipped the blood on his jeans.
”Yeah, she got killed by the lady, well I suppose I should call her 'The Hag' considering this area is called her territory,” I muttered, stepping out of the room and entering back into the hallway.
About fifty feet away from where we were standing, there was a double door that would lead to another part of the hospital. But there were words sprawled across it that read 'KEEP OUT OR DIE' was written in blood. That was foreboding.