Asylum - 13 Tales of Terror (26 page)
“Uh, Jimmy are you alright, you’re sounding like perhaps you need to check into a room here yourself,” Martin smirked.
Jimmy looked down at his watch as though Martin hadn’t even spoken. “These nights do get away from me these days you know,” he said almost to himself. “Last room coming up.”
Martin stared at the elderly janitor; his patience exhausted with the creepy old man and eager to get out of the bowels of the hospital. “I thought there were only 13 tales? 13 patients equals 13 tales,” he snapped irritably as Jimmy walked off to the last door in the corridor.
“We have a new arrival,” Jimmy grinned through a mouthful of blackened rotten teeth. “I think that you know him,” he teased through a cruel smile and squinting narrowed eyes.
Despite Martin’s flight instinct firing fiercely, he couldn’t help but move forward; his inquisitive mind was a beast unto itself. He walked to the open door and peered past Jimmy into the room beyond.
“There’s no-one here,” was as far as he got before something heavy struck him from behind. As he fell he turned back towards Jimmy, in shock as he staggered into the empty room. His head spun from the blow and he faded into the darkness as he passed out, but the last image he saw was a glinting golden wolf’s head atop a gleaming silver cane.
“Welcome home,” Horace Whisker laughed.
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