A Fistful of Knuckles lom-2
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‘That’s the last time you turn your back on me, Sam Tyler.’
In that moment, the blood froze in Sam’s veins. He felt that same panicked compulsion to run, run for his life, that he had felt in the gloom of the ghost train last night.
He span round. The boys were all standing in a loose group, staring at him, their leader casually lighting a cigarette.
‘Who told you my name?’ Sam asked. His heart was pounding. ‘Who the hell told you my name?’
The boy drew on his cigarette, exhaled luxuriously, and said: ‘I make it my business to know my rivals.’
‘What do you mean, “rivals”?’
‘You and my wife,’ the boy said, his young eyes suddenly glinting with a very mature malice. ‘You, Tyler … and my wife.’
‘Wh … What the hell are you-’
‘You think you got rid of me?’ the boy hissed. ‘Oh no. I’ll keep coming at you, you cheating bastard. I’ll keep coming at you until I’ve got my wife back … my wife … mine.’
The boy flicked his cigarette at Sam. It bounced off his chest in a shower of sparks.
His rage overcoming his terror, Sam lunged forward, heedless of the pain that at once shot through his bandaged arm.
The boys tore off, whooping and laughing, spreading out across the open ground, heading off in every direction — just a noisy group of scallies once more. They called back mockingly as they ran: up yours, mistah! Come on then, nick us! Oooh, I’m brickin’ meself!
But the rage had gone out of Sam. In its place, he felt nothing but a cold, congealed dread. He looked back at the remains of the ghost train, and knew that whatever evil thing he had witnessed in there, he would witness again.
When the Test Card Girl appeared, stepping out from behind the burnt ruins and standing innocently beside the bobby on sentry duty, Sam turned away in disgust and began walking. If she called to him, he didn’t hear.
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