chapter 4

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Run,Run I flailed through the undergrowth I had to catch up with them the rest of the shooters I thought I was hopelessly lost now. I was new to this shoot you see I am meadow craictithy I usually did my shooting near here but we decided to go over here instead. I looked around looking for any sign of a path... And nothing I was hemmed in by thick forest on all sides my heart started to rise in beats per minute! And then all was still, the birds stoppped tweeting and the wind which had previously blown ceased I took out my shotgun italian with a walnut stock and loaded it my fingers numb from the cold seeping through my tweed jacket my fingers fumbling for purchase on the cartridge I finally inserted it down the barrel all was silent apart from the snap of my gun going into place. Then I heard it drifting and echoing around the forest the mournful sobs racked with pain, they were coming from my right side from a thick copse of pine trees it grew louder as I approached the ground thick with pine needles I saw a girl my age about 14 with her back turned her nightgown ripped and stained with mud and most disturbingly blood, I ventured on fowards and the sobbing stopped I was two steps away from her back now I gently tapped her on the least soiled part of her white nightgown she snapped round I thought it was me at first but her eyes bored into mine black pools and dark circles round her eyes I saw as I looked on tears of blood streaming down her blue face as blue as the sea and her bulging eyes but worst of all was her grimace with a scream she picked up a white bundle off the ground and sprang, I realized it was a pillow stained red with blood I ran my heart in my mouth my legs pounding against the needles I dared to look and saw her gaining on me not wanting to seriously wound her I shot her in the kneecap it went straight through her and embedded itself into a nearby tree I thought shit she isn't human fear rose further now as my legs were running but my mind was ablaze looking back I tripped and fell over a tree stump falling into a ditch the pine covered ground reared up towards me as my face crashed into the ground cutting my face with the twigs blood started to spill out and then I saw a shadow pass over my torso and felt warm fluid drip onto me from above I turned despite the pain and looked around her face locked into a snarl the blue accentuating her anger she brought the pillow down upon my head and squished the damp bloody pillow against my head I could see nothing but white as I faded to black........

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