Cocked and Loaded (IV)

Most of the objects in the walls were bits and bobs- washers, bolts, and other metallic goods- but as I reached the corners of the wall, I was greeted by another hell of an eye-opener.

Fingers and feet were poking out of the walls. They weren't any fingernails or wrinkles to identify it, but the common clustering of five fingers and cartoonish anthropomorphism of three "toes"  revealed this, as well as some having a component where the knuckles would be.

I tried to rip one out of the wall, a blue-colored one-and it wouldn't go. It had what appeared to be joints- but it was stuck. Frozen in time and space. I could not even bend it, it was like a statue.

They all varied in color by groups. Blue on the left (east for ol' Phil), brown in the center, and yellow on the right. I realized that they all were aligned- the blue right thumb would be at the same height as the pinky of brown and noticed the feet being about three feet higher up the wall than they were.

The toes were much more withdrawn. I could only see the sole, emblazoned with a paw or orange and black lining.

I aimed my flashlight at the ceiling to see if I could find any other parts, and got an answer I didn't ask a question for.

The severed heads- or faces, really, of three mascots were attached at the upper corners of the wall. A blue rabbit, a brown bear, and a chicken, in the same order as their digits.

The technicolor hare was nigh unrecognizable due to it's ears. In between it's lips were two long, jointed rabbit ears hanging over the lower lip like mandibles. The jaw was removed and placed again a bit further down to make room for the meal, stretched in an eternal yelp.  Poking through it's eye sockets were two radio antennae, slowly and deliberately panning over the room, occasionally lifting it's feelers upwards. It dragged against a wall, and halted it's turning. Through the gaps in it's mouths and sockets, I could only see an empty void, one like the gorge of the ravaged child.

The chicken...Christ, the chicken. It was distorted as well. It's lower jaw was entirely removed, and wires hung from underneath it's upper beak. It's eyes were flickering around the room, while it's jaw, being a connected piece, stayed inert.

But the bear. The bear was bad news. Three arms surrounded the bear's head, mounted in the center like a twisted hunter's game, and was completely desolate.

One blue arm was giving a thumbs up, while the thumb was buried deep in it's eye socket, with only darkness to show the lack of vision. A brown arm was poking out of the wall, placed at the right side of the sockets where the ears would be on a man. And a yellow arm, in a "V" shape, had the small finger and the ring finger on the lower jaw, and the rest on the upper. Of course, this didn't obscure the mouth due to the hand's size, like that of a child. The jaw had no throat or tongue, it was much more like a mass It was immersed in that same darkness I had seen in the child, encompassing everything except for one thing inside the jaw cavity.

A small, blinking red light.

I suddenly felt very alone, and looking closer, I saw the mechanical "whirr" of the camera inside the mouth.

The shuffling noise started again, only it was coming from the area behind me. And it was accompanied by beeps and radio transmissions.