Monsters from Beyond Reality by V Bertolaccini

prove what one is authentic and
what one is not!”
    “ That’s a good idea!” he replied,
surprised that he had not thought of it.
    “ I can have it done for you ...?” One
of the archeologists firmly replied, examining Bryson’s features
and comparing them with the skeleton, with surprise. “I’ve another
friend over there ... Near the other castle who can get something
from the other skeleton ...”
    Bryson was astonished and realized that they
had come up with the answer and he agreed firmly and thanked him,
and Mitchell for coming up with such a great idea, and he wondered
what the outcome of it would be.
     

Chapter 10
     
    The Second Death
     
    Bryson studied the crumpled up remains of the
body of the scientist, who he had worked with many times, trying to
realize what had happened. His body was completely drained of water
and of something else that he could not recognize.
    He had just arrived there, at the remote
region of the castle, with Mitchell and his men, and met with
Merton and some scientists and police that had been there.
    One of the other scientists who had been
with the dead scientist earlier had gone out searching for him when
he had not arrived to meet him.
    For some reason everyone there took it that
he had not been killed by the killer and by something else! By
something so hideous, evil, and unearthly that they could not even
imagine what! He tried to ignore how hideous it was, trying to look
upon it as an artist would observe a crazy exhibit, but it was no
use! Something was now out to get them! The things in the wood, if
they were not the culprits, looked like nothing compared to it, and
they now looked as if they had been playing with them and only
scaring them away from their territory.
    The complexion of the body showed it was
drained of blood and showed the deadliness of the place, and their
chances of survival had vastly decreased and danger could now exist
there in the castle and during the day now and they never knew what
they were up against and how to survive against it. They were
becoming defenseless and they could not do anything about it!
    Bryson was confused more than he could ever
recall and he had difficulty discovering what was occurring because
now he could not even imagine solving what had happened!
    Strange thoughts of him leaving the
cold confines of the place and that region gave him shivers of
ecstatic pleasure. Yet the pleasure he could have if they solved
all the riddles there would be far greater! He could return home or
go on holiday to some hot place next to a desert and celebrate –
after returning to reality – not on the brink of catastrophe – and he could
return to solving normal everyday problems with the effortlessness
that he had done for most of his life.
    He attempted to work out the exact time that
it could have occurred and where the room it was in was located,
and wondered why the scientist had been there working alone anyway?
At least it might show that the thing would not touch them in
groups and in the inhabited regions of the castle.
    He could not get why no sounds seemed to be
heard from there, and why the death had not been heard? Some loud
sounds outside could be heard miles away. Yet all the castle large
stones could block even the loudest sounds!
    Merton still seemed slightly shocked at it!
He had seen him working with the scientist on many occasions!
    They all stood
about the body while the police examined things about the body. The
scientist even looked as though he had tried to crawl over the
floor before his death! But he was sure that it only looked that
way and that he had been killed swiftly. But by what? And what had
the thing done to him?
    Bryson
and virtually all of the rest of them, accept the police, gasped
when some more of the police arrived and one of them asked,
“ Who would want to kill him? ”
    Everyone there shrugged and nobody seemed to
be able to reply and Bryson did not know how they were going to
explain the castle