Incident in a Hallway

He stopped in the middle of the hallway, bewilderment all over his face. Then he whipped his head around as if trying to read all the room numbers at once.

She couldn't stand watching anymore.

"Can I help you?" she asked.

He turned toward the sound of her voice. "I can't see you," he said as hysteria crept into his tone.

"What are you looking for?" She tried a different tactic, hoping it would help.

Still turning around in the hallway he replied, "I can't find Prue. Have you seen her?"

She sighed. Her breath ruffling his hair.

He shuddered.

"Prue has been gone for a long time. We're the only ones left now."

His eyes grew wide.

"Gone? Where'd she go? Why didn't anyone tell me?" he demanded.

She finally let him see her as she drifted into the hallway. His eyes widened as he took in her decaying form. The maggots in her face were the most alarming.

"I tell you about her every time you wander in here. About how she died. About how they took her body away. About the fire afterwards. And then you just fade away", she said, placing a transparent, skeletal hand on his shoulder.

"What?" he sputtered. "I'm not fading away."

This was a response she hadn't heard yet and she frowned. Before she could say anything else her world turned gray at the edges of her vision.

His voice suddenly sounded thick and muffled.

"You're the one fading away."

And everything went black.