dotinthesky | The Abbey (Reply)

The police thought it would be best if I hid in the Abbey outside town, until the killer was caught. The Abbey was a school for girls and, for all intents and purposes, the last place the killer would look for me.

At night, in the room they assigned me, I dreamt of another room covered in darkness, and a bucket in the corner that collected blood from the ceiling. When I woke up, they told me one of girls needed to see me. She had the power to see the future in her dreams, but the power was disappearing. Only through a blood transfusion would she regain her power.

I stumbled through the Abbey's cold hallways, light-headed. Part of the Abbey had crumbled years before, with rooms now used for gardens or to keep cattle. I was enjoying the sunshine in one of these rooms when a truck burst through. It was the killer, a piece of cloth covering his mouth and nose. I looked in terror for a way out, past the fence that separated the room from the forest that grew around the Abbey. Just as I dove through a hole in the fence, a group of men came running towards me. They had heard the truck and guessed it was the killer.

The killer jumped the fence and ran into the woods. I thought of his DNA on the truck's steering wheel, and of how we would finally learn his identity.