As the group approached the house, it was clearly uninhabited.
The windows were dusty, cobwebs hung in every corner.
“We gonna do this or what?” Jake asked the group. No one spoke.
Creeping around back, even before gaining entry, they felt the presence.
Emily said, “I’m out!”
Everyone else died.
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Survivors and the families of lost loved ones gathered en masse to gaze at the blue lights the city had erected.
They cannot forget. In the same way, they will not forgive, either. “We will seek justice,” they chant together.
With that, the plan is hatched. Retribution will be theirs.
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