Sotto Voce
[ˌsädō ˈvōCHē]
ADVERB
(of singing or a spoken remark) in a quiet voice, as if not to be overheard.
(Y/N) always knows, even if you don't tell her.
(I'm an anime watcher and a manga reader, so things from both places will be the...
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(Y/N) dashes behind the group of children, watching them run for their lives. She looks behind the group once, and sees the demon's six-legged body crawling after them.
"What is that thing?!" Gilda yells back. "Is it in the book too?"
"Its not in the book, so it must be a demon!!"
"But the demons that Norman and I saw walked upright like humans! They even talked!"
"Yeah, the ones in my memories are like that too..." Ray agrees.
"They didn't have tails, and always had those hideous masks on, and had clothes too!"
"Right!"
"Human meat..." (Y/N) mumbles, but it wasn't caught by the rest of the group.
"Ah!!" Emma yells, tripping on a root.
"Emma!" Ray yells, pulling her upright by her wrist.
"Thanks!" She yells.
"Uhm, so..." Mark stutters. "The demon from the farm came to catch us?!"
"No! It's not from the farm!" Nat yells. "It wants to eat us all right here!!"
"Exactly! This isn't them yet!" Emma agrees with the red-head. "If it was, they would treat us like merchandise, not attack us like that! They would never."
"It's a different kind of demon, unrelated to the Grace Field Plantations." Ray yells up towards the rest of the group.
'Why are you guys talking?' (Y/N) asks internally. 'You shouldn't be wasting your breath on talking.'
She looks ahead at Don, who was leading the group. She watches as he raise his left hand, and then after a couple of seconds, puts it down pointing out to his sides.
The group splits into two, the younger and slower ones following Gilda on a smaller, separate trail.
"It's here!" Don yells. "Ready?! Everybody run! Don't look back, just run!!"
The children run and weave in between trees, in hopes that the demon would get stuck.
"Nice everyone! Keep bringing it into these narrow paths!" Don compliments. "We'll make it eat our dust!!"
(Y/N) runs alongside Ray, seeing his face in an expression of amazement.
"Ray, everybody's doing fine." Emma assures the greed-eyed boy. "Let's deal with the demon right now."
"How exactly...?"
"Well, we can think on the way..."
"Jumping in without a plan again?!"
Unbeknownst to both of them, (Y/N) came up with a plan on her own, and it resulted in maximum survival. The group stopped, but (Y/N) stopped a few yards before them.
She watched as they tried to come up with a plan to escape the demon, but she was already on it. She jumped in between and over different roots, and made it to a safe spot before turning around.
She takes a deep breath, cupping her hands around her mouth, ready for the loud sound that's about to come out of her mouth. "HEY! OVER HERE, NITWIT."
The demon's head turns in her direction.
"(Y/N)!!" She hears voices yelling her name from the group.
Her head turns in that direction for a second. "RUN." Before sprinting off in the other direction.
'Go... go... go... go...' She keeps repeating the same word in her head. She tosses the lantern she was holding onto, in hopes of getting some glass in one of the demon's eyes.
SSSSSHHHHHHHHH
...What?
(Y/N) hides behind a tree, careful around whoever just killed that demon.
"We're just in time, like we anticipated. Found them." A voice says. "We're bringing them back at once. Disgusting. Imagine an inferior race even touching our merchandise."
