Flicck. Bzzz. Flizzz.
The mana lights above the classroom buzzed weakly, its glow stuttering in and out.
Each flicker cast the room into alternating moments of dark and sickly yellow light, like the world itself couldn't decide whether to reveal the horror or let it hide in the dark.
The classroom, once rows of clean desks, whiteboards, and laughter, was gone.
Crunch. Crunch. Crunch.
The sound cut through the silence, wet and deliberate, like bones being broken between teeth. The flickering light kept twitching above, buzzing in rhythm with it.
Max's body shook harder with each crunch.
At the front of the room. A creature crouched over what had once been a girl.
The monster's gaping mouth stretched unnaturally wide, lined with sharp jagged teeth.
It tore chunks from her lifeless body, chewing with a wet, sloppy hunger.
Blood dripped freely down its chin, soaking the front of its body and spreading in a crimson pool across the cracked tiles.
