The sudden dark came back and Kam slammed her shin into the corner of the bed frame. Her cry came out as a squeak. Wolfgang shushed them forcefully and all stood still in the apartment. In the sounds of the muted world around them, menacing whispers were distinct out in the hallway, as were the footsteps of a small group of people approaching doors on the floor below. The fine hairs on Kam’s arms rose in the moments a door was forced open. There was shrieking and then pops of uncertain gunfire, laughter, a series of thuds. And then another door was forced open. And more stairs creaked. “Hide.”
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