Wendigoon

When the new shift came in, they were surprised and confused.

Kellen came by to ask what had happened.

We told him what we knew, but he'd shown up and found open gates and an empty second floor.

There's no indication what had happened, but he promised to check with corporate and figure out if the absent prisoners had all been rapidly transferred again.

Dante gripped the bars and made sure Kellen was looking at him.

Dante reached through the bars and grabbed his uniform, something that usually got us a beating.

Kellen nodded fearfully.

It looked like he finally understood how spooked we were.

He waved another guard off, and Dante let go.

Nothing more came of it for a whole season.

The night shift had quit, and more guards got hired at an even higher pay.

Kellen in another uniform scoped out the first two floors, but found nothing.

Dante thought it was because they were looking during the day, but he wasn't about to ask our only friend to risk himself.

It was maybe three months later.

Yeah, I was halfway through my sentence.

I had taken up drawing, so I had a pen and paper.

When we woke up in the middle of the night, everyone on the third floor was screaming in absolute panic.

I do like this recurring thing.

It's almost like water rising up through the other floors.

And there's no... I mean, it sounds like there's a cover-up with them saying everyone was transferred.