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thought was the arm of a chair. She tugged on it to stand up, but it shifted in the seat, and a corpse fell on top of her.
    She choked on a scream as she stared up into the gooey red mess that had once been the face of a woman, judging by corpse’s clothes. It was hard to tell because her face had been ripped off, leaving only bone and empty eye sockets. Her shoulder bones were visible through her torn dress, revealing a gnawed body with bits of flesh hanging off it.
    Lucy scrambled backwards in horror, pushing the corpse off her. She struggled to her feet and turned, crying out when she encountered a dead man with no head in the next seat.
    Staring around her, she was repulsed by the gruesome corpses occupying most of the cinema seats. Each body had been ripped apart and devoured. She stumbled back, trying to get as far away from the dead as she could.
    A quiet snarl behind her made her freeze in terror. She slowly turned around to see the creature hunched two rows behind her, watching her. Its eyes glowed red. It jumped across a row to land on the one in front of her, and she fell backwards into the dead man’s lap. 
    Oh god!
    The creature sniffed her, its fangs close enough to bite off her nose. 
    That’s what it’s going to do when it’s finished scaring the shit out of me.
    She felt numb as its fetid breath warmed her cheek. She was trapped and helpless again.
    Something hot burned through her veins. For the second time since she had woken up, anger took over her senses.
    If I’m going to die in here, I’m taking this bitch with me.
    The creature pulled back its head, tensing its muscled haunches as if preparing to launch at her.
    She kicked out at its face in a moment of blinding rage, knocking it backwards. Anger welled up inside her at an alarming rate as she leapt up in the dead man’s lap, so she was crouching in it. She launched herself at the creature with a roar as it leapt towards her from between the rows. They collided in mid-air, and she gripped it by the throat with her hands, pushing its head back as they tumbled down the aisle in a ball.
    Its claws sliced across her torso, but she barely felt it as she bit into its neck and ripped its throat out with her teeth. Coppery blood rushed into her mouth, and she pulled back spitting it out as they landed on the stage of the cinema.
    The beast hit the stage first, its elongated limbs bouncing on the hard wood, and its head following as it flopped limply onto the stage.
    She clawed at its body, ripping it apart.
    That’s what you get for trying to bite me, bitch!
    Clarity filtered through her rage, and she paused with the realization that the creature was dead. She widened her eyes in horror when she glanced down at her blood-covered, clawed hands. Golden fur covered her hands, and her fingers were elongated claws.
    She stared down at the beast in shock. It was dead, ripped apart by her. The body beneath her transformed, blurring for a moment before it reset into the shape of a human being; a young man, who was about her age.
    She scrambled off him, shaking all over as she pushed herself backwards. Her fingers squelched into his open chest, and she yelped.
    No, no, no. What the hell am I?
    She stared down at her hands. They were red with blood, but completely human again.
    What the fuck was that?
    She hugged her knees to her chest and rocked back and forth.
    What am I? Are they all human? Is this how they died, by killing each other?
    She didn’t know how long she sat there for. Thoughts tumbled through her mind, trying to answer the many questions that resided there.
    Maybe I’m crazy. Maybe I killed everyone.
    Nothing made sense anymore. She’d become the monster that she was hiding from. She tried to rationalize what happened to her, but was weighed down by guilt.
    I just killed a person.
    No matter how she looked at it, she had just killed a man.
    After a while, she managed to gain some control over her thoughts. Whatever was happening to her, she