When Bela made it to Louisiana, all she had to do was ask the locals there where the swamp is and they directed her to it without stepping a foot themselves.
Bela didn't know how to feel when she saw the scared faces of the people there when they explained what had been happening.
It turns out they weren't notified of the crash and only knew that one specific home where sounds could be heard.
The Louisiana state police and the local sheriffs tried to investigate, they said, but most of them never came back and the few survivors that were able to leave were sickly and died the next day from their saving.
Bela thanked the locals and walked on a road, leading to an estate.
She stopped when she saw a white car parked a few meters away from the estate's gate.
She made sure to check the license plate. She saw the wind shield dusty.
Bela eyed the surrounding forest and surprisingly, the gate was open. She pushed it further and closed it back, unwilling to meet any more uninvited guests. She was one, after all.
When she entered the first thing she set her eyes on was the entrance to the home.
Somehow, without the waterfall, Bela thinks the place is pretty similar to house Beneviento.
But she knows from the unkept grass that the inside will be far from the Beneviento's.
Bela walks slowly to the door, going through multiple old pillars and creaky wooden steps.
She knocked for safety measures but no one answered.
She felt the wind brush against the back of her neck.
After a few minutes of standing there she figured she should already enter.
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Bela pushed the door open and almost immediately, she was greeted with a hand pulling her in by her collar.
It was too fast she couldn't even gasp. She was thrown to the floor and her head hit the ground, hard.
She opened an eye to see who the hell did that to her and saw... An old man.
She tried sitting up only for the man to bend down and grab her by her neck, pulling her up by force.
Due to the panic rising in her chest, she couldn't control her flies and she was met with a disgusting grin.
He pulled Bela higher by her neck, her feet no longer touching the ground while she tried to kick her way out of this.
"Welcome to the family, daughter!"
The man said and then threw Bela across the room, making her back hit the table and everything else in the way, making her hit the wall hard and pass out.
She heard the man snicker and say something to no one before her senses fully shut down.
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Bela fluttered her eyes open quickly and woke up tied to a chair.
She looked around and saw another man, also tied up to a chair but passed out.
Bela looked around frantically but her eyes only went to the family talking and eating like she wasnt just thrown across the room.
She looked down and saw that they were eating... Guts. They were eating intestines, livers–everything that's inside a human or an animal, and with oil. Maybe not oil but she can see oily substances messed up around the guts.
A guy in a hood saw her looking at the food and he quickly piped up.
"She's awake!"
The other two looked at her and a woman smiled at her a rotten, toothy grin.
"Oh, look who's awake now!" she said as if she was just some child of hers that didn't wake up on time.
Bela's eyes were wide in shock of the situation she found herself in.
Her flies werent responding when she tried to move them.
The old man from before smiled at her as well.
"Ya' need supper, girly. Why don't you try Marguerite's food?" he said with the same smile. The woman from before looked like she got an idea.
"Of course! Ya' need to eat to be healthy. Come on, say ah!" the woman said while taking a handful of guts and bringing them to her mouth.
She gulped. Yes, she drank blood, but those guts look like they've rotted and...
Her thought process was broken when the guts were only inches away from her mouth.
She backs her head away, not able to back away fully because of the restraints.
"I'm... I dont–"
"What did ya' say? Come on now, ya' need supper!" the woman cut her off and tried to bring the guts closer to her. Bela tried her best to not receive it.
The woman's face fell when she saw Bela cringing and backing away farther.
The woman seemed to have started panicking, "Why aren't ya' eatin' it? Ya' need it don't ya' know!?" she started shouting suddenly and that made an unfamiliar feeling bubble in her chest.
She can't shake her head now.
When Bela kept on resisting the woman seemed to have a fit about why the hell she wouldn't eat it.
Why the actual hell would I eat that damn garbage!?
The old man and the woman argued and it ended with the woman walking out and the old man taking charge instead.
The old man took another handful of oily guts but also picked up a knife.
"Alright girly, ya' caused a real damn fuss. Now come on, eat up!"
He shouted and brought the knife to her face.
She kept on trying to back her head but that proved useless when the man brought the knife to her mouth and tried to pry her lips open with it.
She opened her mouth to try and avoid the knife and the guts were so close to her mouth and the knife was just threatening her and as if whoever God answered her prayer, the other man tied up woke up.
"What the hell!?" the man shouted as he looked around, panic evident in his eyes.
The old man's attention darted from Bela and to the man in just a second and she pulled the knife and guts away from her face.
"Ahh, another one's awake. Hopefully you won't be as disobedient as this one." the old man said as he glared at Bela from the corner of his eye.
The man then went on to say the same things to the guy and like her, the guy refused.
But the guy still shoved the guts inside his mouth and he puked it out.
Atleast the guy didn't receive the knife...
The old man was about to do something to the guy before they all heard a knock on the door.
The same door the old man pulled her through.
The guy in the hood turned to the sound.
"Ah, damn it. It's that damn cop again."
He turned to the guy tied up, "I'll be back for ya', sunny. You've been a bad boy."
He also turned to Bela but said nothing before stomping out to the main hall. Well, she presumed it was the main hall.
The guy in the hood laughed once more before standing up and walking away.
Bela watched as the former occupants left and when they were fully gone, she turned her head almost instantly to the other guy.
The other guy was blonde, and was also staring at her.
"Yo–did you also get an Email?" the guy asked, almost whispering while trying to untie the rope behind him.
He was successful and he tried to do it with Bela.
Did Miranda receive an Email? She thought, Because the man seemed to have expected me. Did Miranda set me up...?
The guy snapped her out of her thoughts when she felt the restraints fall off her hands.
It seems she was too petrified of the situation to realize she wasn't actually trying to get out of her ties.
She quickly checked her hands and then stood up from the chair. She glanced at the guy and he was staring at her, expecting an answer from his previous question.
"...No." she said plainly. The man nodded, but quietly started to walk to another direction of the place.
Bela figured it wouldn't hurt to split up.
So, with that in mind, she walked the opposite direction and they made their way to other places in this hell hole house.
She just hopes she can get out alive because she knows, that things are going to get much worse after earlier's events.
And she just hopes she can escape this place unharmed as much as possible and with information.
This is where the nightmare begins.