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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmit would take away all of his aggressive instincts. He was wrong about that, anyway; Church still hunts.He— Waow! Church cried again, then turned and darted up the stairs.“Jud?” she called again. “Are you up there?”Waow! Church cried from the top of the stairs, as if to confirm the fact, and then he disappeared downthe hall.How did he get in, anyway? Did Jud let him in? Why?Rachel shifted from one foot to the other, wondering what to do next. The worst of it was that all of thisseemed . . . seemed somehow managed, as if something wanted her to be here, and— And then therewas a groan from upstairs, low and filled with pain—Jud’s voice, surely Jud’s voice. He’s fallen in thebathroom or maybe tripped, broken a leg, or sprained his hip, maybe, the bones of the old are brittle, andwhat in the name of God are you thinking of, girl, standing down here and shifting back and forth likeyou had to go to the bathroom, that was blood on Church, blood, Jud’s hurt and you’re just standinghere! What’s wrong with you?“Jud!” The groan came again, and she ran up the stairs.She had never been up here before, and because the hail’s only window faced west, toward the river, itwas still very dark. The hallway ran straight and wide beside the stairwell and toward the back of thehouse, the cherrywood rail gleaming with mellow elegance. There was a picture of the Acropolis on thewall and(it’s Zelda all these years she’s been after you and now it’s her time open the right door and she’ll bethere with her humped and twisted back smelling of piss and death it’s Zelda it’s her time and finally shecaught up with you)the groan came again, low, from behind the second door on the right.Rachel began to walk toward that door, her heels clacking on the boards. It seemed to her that she wasgoing through some sort of warp—not a time warp or a space warp but a size warp. She was gettingsmaller. The picture of the Acropolis was floating higher and higher, and that cut-glass doorknob wouldsoon be at eye level. Her hand stretched out for it. . . and before she could even touch it, the door wassnatched open.Zelda stood there.She was hunched and twisted, her body so cruelly deformed that she had actually become a dwarf, littlemore than two feet high; and for some reason Zelda was wearing the suit they had buried Gage in. But itwas Zelda, all right, her eyes alight with an insane glee, her face a raddled purple; it was Zeldafile:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (312 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:50 PM