Shadows in the dark part 2 - by The Silent Pen 🖊

<img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/91840FB7-D14C-4089-AF80-071509A710E5.png"/>Part 2 Bimbo’s blood turned cold.The voice outside her door was no longer Sola’s. It sounded wrong now. Like someone trying to wear her voice without understanding how humans spoke.Then came another knock.Slower. Heavier. KPOm… KPOm… KPOm… The thin wooden door trembled with each hit. Bimbo backed away until her legs touched the bed. Her breathing had become shallow, uneven. Sweat crawled down her neck despite the freezing air filling the room. Outside, the compound remained dead silent. No footsteps. No whispers. Nothing. Just that thing at the door. Then—A scratching sound. Something sharp dragged slowly across the wood. Krrrrrrrrrrrr… Bimbo covered her mouth. The scratching moved lower.Then stopped. For a few seconds, there was complete silence again.And somehow… That was worse. Suddenly— “Bimbo…” The voice whispered from directly beside her ear.She screamed and spun around. Nothing. Only darkness. Her chest rose violently as she searched the room with trembling eyes. The voice was inside now. A sudden drip echoed from the corner of the room. Tap.Tap. Tap. Bimbo turned slowly toward the sound. At first, she thought water was leaking from the ceiling. Then lightning flashed outside the window. And she saw it. A figure crouched in the corner above Sola’s bed.Its limbs were too long. Bent backward like a spider.Its skin looked stretched tightly over bones that moved underneath like worms. Its head twitched unnaturally to one side. And its eyes… Completely black. The creature smiled slowly.Its mouth split wider and wider until the skin near its cheeks tore open, singing “Bimbo olomoge, ko ye ko ti pada wa le” when translated from Yoruba means “Pretty girl Bimbo, you shouldn’t have returned home” Fresh blood trickled down its chin. Bimbo couldn’t breathe. The thing spoke again in Sola’s voice.“Why didn’t you open the door?” Then it dropped from the wall. THUD.For where??!Bimbo ran. She lunged for the door before her mind could stop her and flung it open. The compound outside was empty. Completely empty. No neighbors. No movement.Only darkness and the weak sway of hanging clothes in the cold wind. But the doors… Every single door in the compound was wide open. Bimbo stared.An eerie feeling deep within threatening to cripple her limbs. Her heartbeat thundered in her ears. Something felt wrong immediately. The rooms were too dark. Too still. Then from one of the open rooms— A low laugh, more like a dark deep throated chuckle Another room answered with a whisper, like a call to answer, same chuckle, this time more sinister… Then another. Then another. Different voices. Male. Female. Children. All whispering the same thing. “She looked…” “She looked…” “She looked…” The voices began growing louder. Closer. Bimbo stumbled backward into the center of the compound, turning wildly from one open doorway to another. Shapes were beginning to appear inside the rooms. Tall figures standing motionless in the dark. Watching her. One stepped forward slightly.Its neck cracked loudly. Another smiled. Another began crawling slowly out from beneath a bed. Bimbo’s knees nearly gave out.Then every bulb in the compound suddenly came on at once. FLASH. For one brief second, the entire compound became bright. She almost had hope… Almost… And Bimbo saw them clearly.Not her neighbors. Not human. Dozens of tall shadow-like creatures standing in every doorway.Their bodies twisted unnaturally. Their hollow black eyes locked onto her. Smiling. Waiting. Then all the lights went out again.Darkness swallowed the compound. And from somewhere behind Bimbo… Very close to her neck… Sola whispered softly: “You saw us.” A cold hand touched her shoulder.Then everything went black. Anticipate the next. Thanks for reading ✌️🙌🏽

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