I Only Sell Murder Houses

The little girl’s words filled me with an inexplicable dread.

Children were not reliable sources, but when she said that, I believed her completely.

It felt as though the instant Seventh Master and I stepped out of the building, something terrible would happen.

Seventh Master was in charge here, so naturally I would follow his lead.

But he kept staring at the little girl too. He seemed to be wavering.

While we stood there in a daze, we looked back through the front doors and saw that the outside had turned pitch-black, a darkness so complete we could not see our hands before our faces.

This place was some distance from the city, but not so far that the city’s lights did not cast a faint glow. Normally, we could still make out nearby objects.

Now, however, it was as though the space beyond the hotel had been drenched in ink. We could not see anything even just outside the entrance.

“Seventh Master…”