The shells rain down.
The toxic cloud inches closer, snapping at my heels like a rabid dog. Not that rabies exists any more. Or much else apart from us.
The dark refuge looms up in front of me. A weather beaten soil hill. Who knew they still existed?
Scrambling to the top, I get a perfect view of the machine chasing me. Out for the kill. Bounty. The hill is the only refuge.
Temporarily, anyway.
Pacing my own self-imposed prison, I count that it is 5 steps across and-
I can't finish that thought as the ground opens beneath me.
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the castle under the world
Paranormalthis is a dystopian fiction based on some legends about castell coch in wales. it shows the main character - trying to evade the police in the year 2200, and stumbles on the buried remains of castell coch and inadvertently ends up almost single-hand...