"...Answer the phone," the policewoman urged.
As she spoke, her mouth opened into a thin slit, the sound drifting out from that sliver of pitch-black. "Honestly, what are you shining that light on me for? Now you see."
Where her eyes should have been, only eyelids remained—and not in the sense that there was just an empty socket underneath.
If she had seen empty sockets, Jin Xueli might not have been so startled that she couldn't even hold her phone steady, dropping it to the ground with a CLANG. After all, she had seen empty eye sockets before; in the Nest, they weren't even the most terrifying thing.
In the space between the policewoman's eyelids, more eyelids were crammed, layer upon layer.
