Chapter 48: Odd Encounter

"No."

"It's how this world works baby."

Beth shoved him away then ran down the hall. She was disoriented and couldn't find the stairs. She found herself outside the first room again.

She paused, then poked her head around the corner.

Pillar candles sat on the floor in a circle. Something odd was drawn on the concrete. That's when she noticed a person in a dark robe who began chanting. She hoped that wasn't the producer. This was too freaky. From the other side of the room two women barely dressed seemed to chant back to him.

Beth decided that she would find another way to give her career a boost and ran out of the basement and the house.

***

Trent pulled the door down on the truck after a successful night at Grotesque. The bar was packed up in the vehicle and he would drive it to the garage where they kept it. His bones were tired and he wished he'd spent more time convincing his partners that a brick and mortar place might be less work then unpacking and packing up this place once