Shawn: Horrifying Nightmares and Visions
He was breathing fast, in ragged gasps, and couldn't make them slow, and every breath he took was full of the sting of smoke and the stink of the Numbers Game box. His eyes were bulging, his throat was burning, he could not swallow.
"The Clowns are downstairs." Shawn said. He stammered it. It was true. They weren't there a few seconds ago, but Shawn could sense that the Clowns were in fact, downstairs. Mr. Cherrywinks was down there.
"They're going to get Bobby." Shawn said, this time--to the other part of Shawn's mind. The part of Shawn that was Shawn.
He wasn't sure when he had grabbed the Numbers Game box, but now the orange light flashed and flickered on the bare, wooden box, his right hand bunched into a fist around the sides of it, grip, painful tight.