Pernicious Page #4

I'm seriously freaked

out right now.

Me too, but where

are we gonna go?

It's the middle of the night.

It's not like we're

in freaking Bangkok!

We're in the sticks of Thailand!

Well then, we'll call a

cab, and we'll have it take

us somewhere more populated.

Who has a cell phone?

I haven't had service

since I got here.

Sh*t.

We're sleeping upstairs.

All right?

Safety in numbers.

And then I think we need

to go see that old lady.

- No, no, no, no, no.

- Yes.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

Yes.

No!

You said we were just

going to switch houses.

That seems like a

much, much safer plan.

I don't think it's the house.

I think it's the girl.

Mmm.

Wake up.

Mm-mm.

Wake up.

God, Rach.

You guys ready?

I guess.

OK.

Is that mud?

On the floor?

We probably just

tracked it in yesterday.

Come on, let's go.

Come on.

Where is she?

Oh, this is not a good sign.

Great.

WE came all the way down here,

and she's not even around.

Something doesn't feel right.

No, not at all.

Come on.

What are you doing here?

Excuse me.

So sorry.

Uh, he used to know

the family that

lived here, many years ago.

Now he gets confused and forgets

that they're no longer with us.

Is he OK?

Yeah, he's fine.

I'll just take him home.

Wait.

What is that?

What is he holding?

He's not making any sense.

I'm sorry again.

No, why was he pointing at us?

He said, you all

took it from her.

He knows something about this.

I can feel it.

Oh my god.

Did you see the way

he was pointing at us?

It's like we did

something wrong.

It's that amulet.

The one he was holding.

Yeah, from the spirit house.

Excuse me?

When we first

arrived, I snatched it

from the spirit house.

Oh.

I thought it looked cool.

I don't know how

he got it, though.

That spirit house that is

now full of dead flowers?

Yeah, that one.

All right, I'm going over there.

He can help.

No, Rachel, he doesn't

even speak English!

You heard him.

He is insane.

Jules, we're having

horrifying murder dreams,

seeing little girl ghosts...

I'm going over there, OK?

I want this to stop.

Fine.

Creepy house across

the way it is.

Oh, it's you.

How can I help you?

I need to talk to that old man.

Yeah, it's an emergency.

I'm sorry, but he's resting now.

Please?

You can translate!

Excuse me, but

this is very rude.

Look, I know he barged

into your house.

I'm sorry.

But he's not well.

Please.

I'm really sorry,

but this is urgent.

We need you to ask him about the

previous owners of that house

to see if there's a connection.

Connection to what?

To the amulet that he took.

OK?

And then there's this little

girl statue that went missing,

and I just need to

talk to him, OK?

I am not going to ask

him anything about that.

He said he'd help you.

Thank you.

The old house belonged to his

brother Tiwa many years ago.

Tiwa had a beautiful

wife named Samorn

and a daughter named Vanida.

MALE SPEAKER Tiwa was

a good brother, and a good man.

Samorn was pregnant,

and they knew

they were going to have a

son, which was something

they had always wished for.

But Samorn was very ill.

She had gone to see many

doctors, but none of them

could help her.

Tiwa was very desperate.

He went to see a fortune

teller in the village.

Some people called her a witch.

She was known for

communicating with the dead.

Her name was Isra.

Tiwa asked her.

Tiwa begged her to save the

life of his wife and unborn son.

He said he would do anything.

She asked him if he

would really do anything.

Isra told him that he would have

to trade one life for another.

But they would have to come

from the same bloodline.

Tiwa realized that this meant

that he would have to give

up not only his

own life, but that

of his young daughter, Vanida.

He did not want to do this, but

he felt he had no other choice.

Isra explained that

there was a way

to keep Vanida's spirit alive.

She said if she was covered in

the blood of a tortured human,

Tiwa's blood, and

then encased in gold,

that her spirit

would live on forever

and could bring

luck to her family.

Tiwa agreed to do this,

but his wife was not happy.

But he could not let his wife

and son die.

She asked Tiwa not

to do it, but Tiwa

was determined to save his wife

and unborn son, no matter what

the cost.

He asked me for a favor.

He asked me to help

with this ritual,

to bring my tools and

gold from my shop.

I told him no.

But he begged me.

What could I do?

The

next day, I went to his house

with my supplies.

We went down to the basement.

Down to hell.

She was so small.

Too easy to kill.

When it was done, we went

upstairs to get Samorn.

When I entered the

room, I saw her.

It is an image I cannot shake.

There she was, hanging

from the rafters,

the beautiful, pregnant Samorn.

She had hung herself.

Everything had gone wrong.

The ritual was for nothing.

Isra warned me that the child's

spirit would now be restless.

Her death in vain.

So we created the amulet and

placed it in the spirit house

so that her spirit would

not be free to enter

the world, until now.

The statue in the house.

It's Vanida, the little girl?

And you made it

and you killed her?

Yes.

How can we stop her?

She is what she is.

She's what we made her.

Kumari cannot be stopped.

There must be

something we can do.

He wants you to have this.

Thank you.

Will this help?

We should go.

I cannot believe he

murdered that little girl.

We need to leave right now.

His brother asked him to.

And we can't just leave.

You heard what he said.

The girl is after us.

He could have said no.

We wouldn't be in

this nightmare.

It's not that easy!

These rituals are real to them.

He probably thought

he was really helping.

Are you serious right now?

He killed Vanida!

He sliced her open, drained her

blood, and covered her in gold!

Like a doll!

And for what?

For an unborn child?

Al, calm down!

Don't tell me to calm down!

Give me that!

There.

It's done.

What's with the salt, Al?

Saw it on TV.

Shh.

It's coming from Sang's house.

We need to get over there.

No.

D-don't you think we should

just call the police?

We have no service!

What if he's in trouble?

- What do we do?

- There's no time.

Let's go!

You killed him!

You killed him!

Just like you killed

your brother and Vanida!

Why?

Why did you do this?

Why did you do it?

No!

Oh God, oh God, oh God.

This is bad.

This is bad.

This is so bad, Julie.

Shut up.

So so so, this is so bad.

Julia, shut up.

Shut up?

I just murdered somebody!

Don't tell me to shut up!

We murdered somebody.

We're all here.

It's all our fault, OK?

We need to leave right now.

What are we gonna

do with the body?

Rachel, there are

two bodies here!

Leave them!

Let's just go.

Guys, come on.

I don't blame you, Julia.

It had to be done.

No it did not have to be done.

I killed someone.

He was a murderer.

I cannot believe what

I'm hearing right now!

What is wrong with you?

Let's not talk about

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