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bluntly. I then rushed over towards the exit doorway before slowing my pace down and cautiously stepping out into the main corridor. To my left was nothing of interest at all but on the right I began to hear a faint scratching coming from around the next corner where the kitchen and dining area were both situated. I cautiously approached the left turn in the corridor. As I approached my breathing deepened and my gut clenched up real tight as I nervously poked my head around the corner, not quite sure what the hell I was going to find around there or just who or what the hell was going to confront me... When I finally turned my head into the corridor it was completely empty and so very quiet. I took a deep breath and composed myself and slowly stepped fully out into the corridor. Then I heard that faint sound of scratching once more but this time from way up and along the next corridor. I followed the scratching sound and made my way towards the end, passing the two open doorways to the kitchen and dining area on my right until I reached the next corridor directly opposite the dark pod room. As I approached the sharp turn I once again carefully and cautiously moved towards the edge. My heart pumped furiously, pounding around my chest like it was trying to find a way out of my body through my throat and a feeling of great intensity surged through my entire body. I slowly glanced around the next corner. My breathing deepened and my face turned to white as I glanced over at the ghostly figure at the very end of the corridor where the stretching black window was situated. It seemed to be the figure of the blonde woman, she had her back to me, but I could clearly see her dirty blonde hair. She was dressed in a white gown, just like I saw in the reflection earlier, but what I didn't see in the reflection was that her white gown was covered in blotches of thick red blood stains. She was crouching down now with her front side facing the far corner of the next corridor wall, where the stretching black window began. When I looked more closely she seemed to be scratching hideously at the tiled floor in the corner with her finger nails. It was a horrible sound. A disgusting sound. I took another deep breath and finally stepped out into the corridor.
    'Hello.' I said raising my voice.
    The blonde woman did not answer or even flinch. She just continued to scratch away, so I decided to walk slowly towards her. Then something strange happened... The blonde woman stopped scratching all together and began sobbing out. I was only a few feet away from her.
    'Are you... okay?' I asked. But again she did not answer and continued to sob. I got closer to her, close enough to reach out my hand and touch her on the shoulder. My finger tips were close, so close, within millimetres of touching the shoulders of the crouching woman when... She stopped crying instantly and was completely silent. I froze where I was, not moving my fingertips any closer towards her nor pulling them away either. My heart skipped a beat as an eerie silence filled the air. Then as I studied the lower part of her crouching body I noticed a trickle of blood dribbling down from inside the woman's gown and inner thigh which then trickled down to her lower knee before dribbling onto the corridor tiled floor below. Suddenly a voice called out to me from behind, scaring the life out of me. It was the young brunette woman who I'd told to stay in the computer room. She was behind me now at the opposite end of this corridor, outside the pod room.
    'Ian.' She called out. 'Ian.'
    Distracted, I turned around to face the brunette woman whose face was full of both fear and concern as she stared at me looking so confused and drilling those dull blue eyes right into me. I said nothing and quickly turned back towards the crouching blonde woman... but she was gone. I was startled. Where the hell did she go? I quickly turned every way I could, but every which way was empty. The whole corridor was