Gallows Hill
Darcy Coates
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“Some things are special,” Witchety continued. “Keys to beloved places. The bones of an animal that never lived a day in captivity. Tiny gifts and unblemished flowers and stones that make you feel a particular way. They may not have much power on their own, but weave them together with care and they create a breathing tapestry. That’s what the Watcher is.” She lifted the talisman. “What this is. Things that are special enough to keep you safe. At least a little.”
“sometimes, an unasked-for gift could easily begin to look like a burden.”
“she felt as though damaging the form would invite some kind of horrific misfortune.”
“but the head was turned at a sharp angle. Pulled to the left. As though her neck had been broken. It could have come from anything—a distortion in the wall, a quirk of the bulb behind her. Margot raised her hand, watching its mirror flit across the surfaces until it was at the same height as her head. It did not distort. I don’t understand. She tried turning her head to the right, seeing if she could correct the angle enough to get the shadow’s head to stand upright. For a second, it seemed to work. The head rose on the violently twisted neck, reaching a point where it was nearly straight, and then it twisted over, dropping to the other side. Something protruded from the edge of the shadow’s neck. A broken bone through skin.”
“White lines ran like rivers across her torso, threading from her collarbone, under her bra, and ending near her navel. They’d faded over time, but the scars would never fully vanish.”
“The sound that had broken her dreams continued. A shrill, chiming alarm, loud and close by. The room was dripping in heavy moonlight. Margot squinted into the darker corners of the space and saw a flicker of movement. The service bell danced on its hook.”
“She’d watched her share of horror movies. She’d seen plenty of fictional portrayals of death, both modern and campy. She had to assume, if her mind was intent on tormenting her, it would have plucked inspiration from something it had already seen.”
“She’d had it all wrong. The bells in the house weren’t left over from some centuries-old staffing arrangement. And there weren’t levers inside the house to pull. The wires were connected to the fence. The bells were an alarm system.”
“She was desperately aware of how rare opportunities like this were. A house and a business, each worth more than all of her current possessions combined, had been handed to her. She felt achingly ungrateful for the way she was shirking them. Except that, sometimes, an unasked-for gift could easily begin to look like a burden.”
“Now, though, the time felt deeply sick. As though anyone who was alert at this hour invited terrible, horrific things into their lives. As though it opened a doorway to a darker world.”
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