\tNoise slipped into the background, as if muffled through thick cloth. Pressure filled the room, and the walls stretched. The ceiling bowed upwards, fleeing from the floor beneath it. The floor pressed down, digging into the earth below.<\/p>\n
\tThe windows were the first to escape, their shards of glass fleeing into the night, lost amidst a storm of warring clouds. Next the door, the wood breaking free and making for the shelter of a nearby wood.<\/p>\n
\tThe pressure eased, and the walls returned to their normal shape. Sound returned, a cacophony after the silence. A moment passed.<\/p>\n
\tAnother.<\/p>\n
\tOnce more.<\/p>\n
\tSilence.<\/p>\n
\tThe building heaved, forced outward. Again the ceiling strove to escape, and the floor to dig to freedom. The pressure built, straining, falling.<\/p>\n
\tNature’s chorus, the call of birds in fear.<\/p>\n
\tA thin hiss beneath.<\/p>\n
\tA cat, squirming from the building.<\/p>\n
\tA push, a thrust, a pulse, and then the walls grow still and silent, and the ceiling sags down, exhausted. The floor rests upon the dirt, making of it an open coffin.<\/p>\n
\tBirds fled, carrying the cat with them to safety.<\/p>\n
\tA darkness of wreathes blotted the open doorway.<\/p>\n
\tIt had returned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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