“What do you mean…? Oh, no, I didn’t hurt my eyes. My vision is fine.”
I had to give myself credit for the quick lie.
The white reptilian head turned away with a faint, dry hiss.
Please, not this. Anything but this.
It was a cruel joke to escape a ghost story only to be trapped in another one. But I wasn't about to say a word. The tense atmosphere in the room made it perfectly clear: I was not supposed to be seeing a lizard’s head.
Everyone
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