![]() ![]() His bare foot was planted in my gut, and I couldn’t blame him when he dug his toes in for leverage before lifting off me. ![]() Though I’d done my best to tell myself that’s exactly what it was - and had kept telling myself that right up until the moment the figure in the mirror had tried to reach through the glass and touch me. What the hell had that been? It sure wasn’t a trick of the light. “What the hell was that?” moaned someone from the ether. Or maybe that was just the dust, which had probably crystallized with age. My elbow whanged one final time into the balusters and my head banged down on the floor. We landed in a tangle of limbs on the dusty and none-too-plushy carpet. ![]() “Yooouuu’ve gotta be fu-uh-uh-uh-uh-cking kid-ding me!” Well, in fairness it was one long yelp and a prolonged curse. My… er… companion yelled and cursed all the way down the first flight. It turned out the fastest means was crashing headlong into someone bigger, and letting his momentum send us both hurtling down the staircase. My only thought was getting downstairs and out the front door as fast as possible. ![]() I didn’t see him see until it was too late.Įven if I had seen him, I’m not sure it would have made a difference. ![]()
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