Girls Never Die || TripleS

8 - Recollection

Sullin had no idea what was happening.

The moment she stepped out of the hotel lobby and into the streets, she was greeted by a cacophony of screams and shouts. People attacked other people indiscriminately, lunging at them and tearing their flesh out. Sullin's eyes flickered around wildly, trying to focus on a single incident, but her senses were overwhelmed.

A teenage girl on the sidewalk ran towards her. She was being chased by a significantly faster woman who growled at her with her arms reached out. She caught up to the kid and they both fell onto the pavement right in front of her.

Sullin reeled back in confusion and fear, her back pressed against the hotel's glass door. As the woman tore her teeth into the girl's arm, the latter cried out in pain, trying to crawl her way out of the situation. She held an arm out to Sullin, begging for her help in between sobs.

Although she didn't understand, Sullin immediately grabbed the girl's wrist with both hands and pulled. She tried lifting her out with all her strength, but the woman had the girl pinned down as she kept ripping her skin apart, clothes and all. Blood quickly splattered on the sidewalk along with pieces of torn flesh being thrown around.

Sullin grit her teeth at the girl's desperate, deafening cries. As seconds passed, the girl's screams lowered until she rolled her eyes back and passed out from the pain and blood loss.

Tears welled up in Sullin's eyes as she dropped the girl's hands. Her body shook with fear as she looked at the fleshy mess that was once the girl's back.

The woman stopped and snapped her head up towards Sullin, staring into her eyes with her own empty, dilated pupils.

Sullin gulped, her breaths heavy. She reached out for the hotel's door handle with a trembling hand as she kept her eyes on the woman, who was standing up. As she kept missing, her hand repeatedly swatting the air, she looked back and forth between the handle and the woman.

The woman jumped over the girl's body. Sullin widened her eyes and put her fists forward in a shaky fighting stance. When she got close enough, her jaw loosening and trying to bite off Sullin's nose, she pushed her right palm against the side of her head with a yell, throwing the woman off-balance and sending her toppling to the ground, where she got stepped over by the human stampede.

The kicks did not make the woman falter, though, as she slowly stood back up, unbothered by the constant hits she received. She snarled, boring her eyes into Sullin, who was getting ready to fight back again.

When the woman ran towards her, the hotel door swung open and Sullin was dragged back into the lobby. The door closed with a slam.

Sullin breathed hard. She watched in fright as the woman slammed into the glass, banging relentlessly against the door with her jaw unhinged.

Sullin was spun around before two hands were placed on each side of her arms.

"är yo͞o ˌôl ˈrīt?" a woman with shoulder length hair dressed in fully black clothing asked her. Sullin blinked at her with wide eyes, shaking her head.

The woman frowned. She gulped. "är yo͞o hərt?" she tried again, bringing her face closer. Sullin could hear her concern, but whatever the girl was telling her sounded like straight gibberish.

Sullin shook her head again, tilting her head sideways and creasing her eyebrows far up her forehead. "I don't understand," she spoke slowly in English.

The woman sucked in a breath. "No Korean?" she uttered out hesitantly.

Sullin's head perked up as she understood, nodding with sparkling eyes.