Decorations

You scan the displays on the walls around the store. They're packed with decorations ranging from the cheesy and affordable to the expensive and insane. You're not here to buy any--after all, you're here for a costume-- but you are a Halloween fanatic and can't help yourself.

You stroll along the walls, seeing spooky grim reapers that pop forward as you pass them, issuing their recorded shrieks and wails. You pass witches and ghosts gibbering with lights and sounds. At the very back though, there's a small area obscured by green and purple hanging streamers. As you push past the steamers, it's a 7x7 area, obscured by these streamers on all four sides, acting as makeshift doors. The streamers hang from ceiling to floor and are packed so tightly together that you can barely see the rest of the store through them.

In the area there are three life sized animatronic decorations, each still for the moment.

A skeleton chained to a headstone in a sitting position with one outstretched finger pointing out, as if to say "You're next."

A werewolf with wild tawny fur clad in only a yellow plaid shirt, hunched over and ready to pounce.

A hissing gargoyle on all fours--mid prowl--its demonic face upturned and pointing up at waist level.

You wonder why these are sequestered away from the rest of the displays and have a naughty thought or two of why this could be. Or maybe it's just YOUR dirty mind coming up with things to do with them.

You remind yourself that the only reason you came here was to purchase a costume, but your mind keeps running back to all the fun SOMEONE could be having back here alone.