Chapter 44: The Witch (2)
A student dying in public naturally alarmed the police.
By the time the Micano police arrived at the scene, the spiders had already vanished. All that remained on the ground was a pool of blood and Laura’s clothes, soaked through with it.
There had been far too many witnesses to the death. Although the music teacher reacted quickly and cleared the students from the scene almost at once, photos and videos related to the incident still spread rapidly throughout the entire school. Everywhere you walked, people were talking about it.
Laura’s manner of death was extremely bizarre. No one had ever heard of a person coughing up spiders and then having their body explode into a puddle of blood.
In this version of America, science and superstition went hand in hand—people believed all sorts of things. Some thought Laura had accidentally swallowed the eggs of some mutated spider, which then hatched inside her and ate her hollow from within. Others immediately criticized that view, arguing that this supposedly scientific explanation was not scientific at all.
“Hey, this is already the second death. One case might be nothing, but two people dying in such strange ways? How could science possibly explain that? This has to be a witch’s curse!” the boy insisted confidently.
“A witch? What witch?”
“You don’t know? The old school building used to be a chapel owned by a Catholic church. They say that in that chapel, a cursed witch was once imprisoned…” The boy lowered his voice, speaking in a mysterious tone.
Horror Movie Survival Rule One: pay attention to the clues.