D Is For Damien Excerpt 2

INTRODUCTION: A D Is For Damien excerpt, in the same five-subject notebook as the original text of the novel it was inspired by. This looks to be almost word-for-word the same as an existing scene from that novel; what changes there are were likely for space. Likely 1990, but possibly 1991.

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Excerpt from
D is for Damien

They all waited in the narrow passageway, barely daring to breathe lest they be heard through the thin metal. Right now they couldn't remember how they got there, or where they came from--only that they had to get the D.

"Do you see it?" Tokky whispered.

Damien shook his head in the near-darkness. Little spots of light shone in through the iron grille enclosing the shaft. "I can see a big group of people. There's a scorpion on a curtain, and a large tapestry of the devil. And there's a goat skull with two candles, one red, one black."

"What are they doing?" Kat asked.

"They're kneeling. I think they're worshipping the skull or the tapestry."

"Let me see," Harvey whispered, crawling closer. He leaned against the grille accidentally, and everyone fell out when it cracked open. They landed in a heap on the blood-red carpeted floor.

Looking up, they saw about a hundred or so pairs of Satanic eyes staring at them.

They were definitely in trouble.