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Chapter 103

Somehow the silence was thicker in the hallway, almost as corporeal as the darkness, but the quiet broke with the blood thundering through my ears. We stepped out with the captain in the lead, hugging the wall to the right by touch alone, away from the Vicious room. Away from Ellison and Randolph. I hoped that doppelganger thing didn't have sharp hearing because our footsteps, as soft as they were, crashed against the titanium.

Captain Glenn soon angled us left around the corner. A shuffling noise, somewhere in the hallway, stiffened Mase's hand in mine and hesitated all our steps. But we pushed on as fast as possible through the dark, even though the thing likely hunted our every move.

Another left. One more and we'd be in the same hallway as the dining room and Ellison and Randolph. I hoped they somehow knew we were coming.

More shuffling up ahead. Or was it behind us? Everything echoed so much in the metal ship, it was hard to tell.