are allowing this man to get inside your head. I don’t care that you’ve changed your spots, but these people aren’t your friends. I don’t know how you could possibly believe anything that they say, because they’re obviously trying to make you feel like there’s no way out.” I couldn’t believe that I was the one that was telling him how it was, when these words should’ve been coming out of his mouth and not mine.
“Fine, but don’t say I didn’t warn you when you’re being skinned alive.” That wasn’t a pleasant thought at all, but at least I had stopped him from wallowing in self pity long enough to get as far away from here as we could. We couldn’t exactly go back the same way we came, so the only option was to keep moving and hope that we came out onto some kind of road. That way we would be able to follow it back to civilization and hopefully to safety. “He’s like a dog with a bone and once he has your scent, there’s absolutely nothing that you can do to get away from him.” I was through trying to understand any of them and the only thing I wanted to do was keep myself alive long enough to walk away from this relatively unscathed.
“You forget that we’re both survivors and we should be acting like it.” I was running as fast as I could, keeping up with his long strides in the forest, while at the same time hearing voices in the distance getting closer. Suddenly, I heard dogs. It sounded like they had their own bloodhounds to track us down. It wouldn’t take all that much to find our scent, because we had probably left something for the dogs to track from the moment that we entered the house. “Just keep moving. Don’t even consider giving up.” Honestly, if I could’ve gotten away on my own and didn’t need him, I might have considered it. As it was, it wasn’t like I could survive on my own and the only way to do it was to keep him thinking that he needed to protect me.
I heard something in the distance, but I couldn’t place what it was. It sounded familiar…like something from my childhood.
Laughter began to permeate the air “That’s funny Jason. You really have no idea what kind of trouble is coming your way. If you think that I’m bad, then you’re about to find out that something is a whole lot worse than my bark.” I didn’t know what he was getting at, but it sounded like he had a bit of knowledge that we didn’t. “I would love to see the look on your faces when you see what you’ve gotten yourself into, but I suppose I’ll be able to see it soon enough.” That sound was getting louder with each movement through the trees and then almost inexplicably those trees began to disappear all together.
We were now standing in some kind of clearing and I was about to take a few more steps into the darkness, when he put his hand out across my chest to stop me from any forward momentum. “Don’t even move.” My foot was poised in midair, when he pulled me back a few steps and then tossed a pebble into the direction of where my foot had just been. Where I thought I was going to hear the rock bouncing off the ground, instead I heard nothing but silence, until the sound of the rock splashing down into the water down below. “We’re trapped and there’s no place to go. I don’t want to presume to know what you want to do. It’s up to you decide if you want to jump or stay here and face them.”
That wasn’t exactly my idea of fun and choosing from one catastrophe to the other wasn’t going to be easy. On one hand, I could stay here and definitely die at their hands, or I could take a chance on the unknown and hope for the best. It really wasn’t a choice and I knew in the back of my mind that the only way to do this was to take a deep breath.
“I don’t need to think about this and I would rather take my chances down there than with them.”
“Be sure of that, Larissa, because according to my calculations of how far the rock fell, I would say that we
“Fine, but don’t say I didn’t warn you when you’re being skinned alive.” That wasn’t a pleasant thought at all, but at least I had stopped him from wallowing in self pity long enough to get as far away from here as we could. We couldn’t exactly go back the same way we came, so the only option was to keep moving and hope that we came out onto some kind of road. That way we would be able to follow it back to civilization and hopefully to safety. “He’s like a dog with a bone and once he has your scent, there’s absolutely nothing that you can do to get away from him.” I was through trying to understand any of them and the only thing I wanted to do was keep myself alive long enough to walk away from this relatively unscathed.
“You forget that we’re both survivors and we should be acting like it.” I was running as fast as I could, keeping up with his long strides in the forest, while at the same time hearing voices in the distance getting closer. Suddenly, I heard dogs. It sounded like they had their own bloodhounds to track us down. It wouldn’t take all that much to find our scent, because we had probably left something for the dogs to track from the moment that we entered the house. “Just keep moving. Don’t even consider giving up.” Honestly, if I could’ve gotten away on my own and didn’t need him, I might have considered it. As it was, it wasn’t like I could survive on my own and the only way to do it was to keep him thinking that he needed to protect me.
I heard something in the distance, but I couldn’t place what it was. It sounded familiar…like something from my childhood.
Laughter began to permeate the air “That’s funny Jason. You really have no idea what kind of trouble is coming your way. If you think that I’m bad, then you’re about to find out that something is a whole lot worse than my bark.” I didn’t know what he was getting at, but it sounded like he had a bit of knowledge that we didn’t. “I would love to see the look on your faces when you see what you’ve gotten yourself into, but I suppose I’ll be able to see it soon enough.” That sound was getting louder with each movement through the trees and then almost inexplicably those trees began to disappear all together.
We were now standing in some kind of clearing and I was about to take a few more steps into the darkness, when he put his hand out across my chest to stop me from any forward momentum. “Don’t even move.” My foot was poised in midair, when he pulled me back a few steps and then tossed a pebble into the direction of where my foot had just been. Where I thought I was going to hear the rock bouncing off the ground, instead I heard nothing but silence, until the sound of the rock splashing down into the water down below. “We’re trapped and there’s no place to go. I don’t want to presume to know what you want to do. It’s up to you decide if you want to jump or stay here and face them.”
That wasn’t exactly my idea of fun and choosing from one catastrophe to the other wasn’t going to be easy. On one hand, I could stay here and definitely die at their hands, or I could take a chance on the unknown and hope for the best. It really wasn’t a choice and I knew in the back of my mind that the only way to do this was to take a deep breath.
“I don’t need to think about this and I would rather take my chances down there than with them.”
“Be sure of that, Larissa, because according to my calculations of how far the rock fell, I would say that we
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