“What did you hear?” Kevin whispered as he followed Keryn out of their bedroom, holding the handheld radio ected to a pair of headphones in his ears.

  “I don’t know - just some voices - I think it just went through the walls, like echoes or vibrations.” Keryn shook her head: “Did the captain say anything?.”

  “No.” Kevin shook his head in response: “Aher did Mick, I think he might be asleep as well - it’s been a really long day - ”

  “Let’s go take a look first. If somebody really es in then we o call the captain and wake him up.” Keryn sighed: “Follow me.”

  Kevin lightened his footsteps and tried to tread as carefully as possible. But no matter how hard he tried, he could never move as quietly as Keryn did.

  “Wait - here it es.” Keryn made another “shush” gesture and poi the wall to her left.

  Kevin did not notiything at first, but as he held his left ear close to the wall, he could hear a faint voice emanating from the wall and the embedded wooden beams themselves. After only a short moment of hesitatio his ear directly against the wall.

  Soft cries, moans and weeps. It was as if a sian in pain was whispering right at his ears. He almost jumped straight away from the wall. Keryn caught him by his back, without letting him make any more noise.

  “Holy shit - this is - this is not people ing in! It’s in the walls of this house.” Kevin almost lost trol of his voice: “This is ay inhabiting this house!”

  “Ay? What entity?” Keryn put her right ear against the wall, the left ear: “What - what the hell is it? Some kind of ghost? Or spirit?”

  “I don’t know. I’ve never seen anything like this, or heard about it.” Kevin sighed: “But I think I know what the tai artifacts are for - it must be to tain this - this entity, or these entities, I’m not sure.”

  “My god, what is Captain Ko up to?” Keryn spoke through her teeth.

  Just this moment, the sound of cars approached. her Kevin or Keryn paid it much mind at first, until several men got out of their cars and headed straight towards the house. Some of them started w on the doors and windows.

  “Shit!” Keryn cursed: “Call captain, and Mick. But make sure not too loud. ’t have them hear us.”

  “Captain? Captain Ko?” Kevin spoke into the radio with a low voice: “Mick? Are you up? eople ining! Captain Ko? Mick? Wake up!”

  There was no response. All he could hear from the radio was static.

  “Fug hell.” Keryn cursed: “I, now. At least we’ll have some more ons.” She checked her gun and handed Keviaser: “I have four shots left. So, we need knives, anything we use as a on.”

  “Mick? Captain? Wake up please!” Kevin raised his voice a little as he followed Keryn downstairs and into the kit.

  The captain’s kit was simple but well modeled and very , almost too for a kit - clear indication that it was rarely used, if at all. Keryn began searg through the drawers and shelves. She found three knives, one small steak knife, one multi-use kit kh a poiip, and one cleaver with a thick spihere was also a small tenderizer, but only with a pstic head instead of a metal one.

  Kevin turned on the faucet behind Keryn, then turned something ohe kit ter. Keryn looked back at Kevin, and saw the water boiler fshing its light.

  “Hot water? Really?”

  “I ’t find anything else.” Kevin shrugged: “Captai even have a lot of throwable ptes.”

  “Okay, keep trying them. I’ll see what I do.” Keryn sighed ahe kit knife in her hand, while keeping the other ons close to Kevin: “Don’t rush over and fight, be careful.”

  “Hey, Keryn.” Kevin reminded Keryn from behind: “I think - I think if they enter, we o keep them here.”

  Keryn’s body shivered, then she Kevin: “Fuck! Yeah. Thanks for that - I almost fot. Then I’ll probably need your help - ”

  Before she could finish, the back window just around the er of the kit opened. Kevin and Keryn lowered the body at the first sound of the locks being picked open and hid behind the marble kit isnd.

  “Motherfucker. How fug easy is it to pick that lock?” Keryn sighed, shaking her head.

  Light footsteps approached. Keryn inched her head out from behind the isnd to take a peek at the ining men - there were three of them, all in dark cloaks, and all seemed to be holding handguns.

  “Three men. ” Keryn whispered to Kevin: “Okay, let’s wait for them to e in closer, I’ll shoot them first, then you use your taser and see if we stop one of them, okay?”

  “Okay.” Kevin took a deep breath, then nodded.

  Keryn also took a deep breath, then shot up from behind the isnd and opened fire on the shadows of three men walking in.

  The man in the middle got hit with three shots and ut down in an instant. Kevi out from the le and shot the taser in his hands at the man closest to him. The tws struck the man on his lower waist. His target cried as he twitched and fell on the ground.

  The st man opened fire back at Keryn. Keryn was forced back to behind the isnd, but not before throwing the kit k the st man standing.