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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm—of Gage’s feet.Oh stop it, can’t you stop it?She reached out and twisted the bell.Its sound was even louder than she remembered, but not so musical—it was a harsh, choked scream inthe stillness. Rachel jumped back, uttering a nervous little laugh that had absolutely no humor in it at all.She waited for Jud’s footsteps, but his footsteps did not come. There was silence, and more silence, andshe was beginning to debate in her own mind whether or not she could bring herself to twist that ironbutterflyshape again, when a sound did come from behind the door, a sound she would not haveexpected in her wildest surmises.Waowf . . . Waow! . . . Waow!“Church?” she asked, startled and puzzled. She bent forward, but it was of course impossible to see in;the door’s glass panel had been covered with a neat white curtain. Norma’s work. “Church, is that you?”Waow!Rachel tried the door. It was unlocked. Church was there, sitting in the hallway with its tail coiled neatlyaround its feet. The cat’s fur was streaked with something dark. Mud, Rachel thought, and then saw thatthe beads of liquid caught in Church’s whiskers were red.He raised one paw and began to lick it, his eyes never leaving her face.“Jud?” she called out, really alarmed now. She stepped just inside the door.The house gave back no answer; only silence.Rachel tried to think, but all at once images of her sister Zelda had begun to creep into her mind,blurring thought. How her hands had twisted. How she used to slam her head against the wall sometimeswhen she was angry—the paper had been all torn there, the plaster beneath torn and broken. This was notime to think of Zelda, not when Jud might be hurt. Suppose he had fallen down? He was an old man.Think about that, not about the dreams you had as a kid, dreams of opening the closet and having Zeldaspring out at you with her blackened, grinning face, dreams of being in the bathtub and seeing Zelda’seyes peering out of the drain, dreams of Zelda lurking in the basement behind the furnace, dreams—Church opened his mouth, exposing his sharp teeth and cried Waow! again.Louis was right, we never should have had him fixed, he’s never seemed right since then. But Louis saidfile:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (311 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:50 PM