Nate <8bite
Nate's eyes were on stalks at her surroundings when she ventured outside. A cemetery. She'd been worried about Steph when there had been hundreds of dead bodies all around her the entire time. She tried to break away from looking as he approached them from the darkness taking hold of Dawn. Nate reared back fiercely- that's how he wanted to play it!
She hurried after him seeing Dawn try to glance back at her- a picture of sheer horror on her face.
Round to the back of the warehouse Nate struggled down the slope in the thickness of the night, the fog heavy enough to cling like a second skin and the air biting at her body. He was moving so fast and Dawn was being roughly handled right beside him. He was panicking. Nate could hear cars pulling up to the gate, the voices crisp and clear in the chilled surroundings tucked away from civilization.
Within minutes Nate's feet were sunken in the ground- it was muddy, perilous and when she glanced up she was dismayed to see she was falling behind. She couldn't understand how he could move so efficiently through it when Nate felt like she was being eaten alive by the freezing marsh that enclosed around her feet and ankles. Yanking her left foot free her right foot held fast in the mire and she toppled forwards giving a short squeal in alarm.
"Hey! Keep up! What's the matter?"
Nate glanced up to see their faint outlines against the muddy mass ahead of her disturbing the fog- her sister clearly torn between watching her own footing and glancing back but she could barely see them! If that went any further she'd lose sight all together.
Would he...leave her?
"I'm trying!" She yelled back tugging on one arm buried to the elbow. The mud felt awful, it coiled between her toes and fingers and compacted the parts it'd managed to steal in her moment of balance loss."Uh! Just let us go! We're slowing you down! Leave us both!" she cried out.
In her climaxed moment to persuade him to leave them when it was most crucial she heard footsteps sprinting round the back of the warehouse but the fog revealed nothing.
Nate battled to her feet half her body caked in black like some tribal huntress.
"Let her go- You're gonna get caught!"
He had a gun if they were all caught he'd shoot, he wasn't afraid to shoot, wasn't afraid of anything...was he afraid of running quits. Getting caught. Of anything?
Calzone <8bite
Calzone slowed down warily, as he saw how the mist coagulated into a thick fog as the hill fell away behind the building. He was going to have no idea what he was running into and how could he know how much of a head start whoever it was had had? I mean there was only so far they could have gone before reaching the river, but they wouldn't have gone this way unless they had some sort of a plan about how they were going to cross.
Suddenly there was a shout up ahead - a man's voice followed by a female voice.
They weren't too far ahead! He launched once again into a sprint, relying on momentum to prevent him from sinking as the soft grass gave way to the ravenous mud bank. A figure appeared up ahead, and as he came nearer he realised without any doubt that it was Nate. She was alive! She was making slow and painful progress, and stumbled before Calzone reached her. Lunging down, he grabbed her around her waist and pulled her free of the mire.
"Nate, you're safe! I'm the police, let's get you out of here."
Nate <8bite
A hot arm scooped her around the midriff and with a grunt pulled her up out of the muddy confinement. Nate's head twisted in her startlement to catch sight of a man behind her. Police?
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Cherry Bite
Mystery / ThrillerSeventeen young girls have disappeared within the last year with growing velocity and the authorities are dumb with bewilderment. The police have no key suspect, no bodies, no evidence. What they do have is a sense of absence and the knowledge that...