An Earthquake

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IN MORFON 

John

"Oh god, oh god, that's a Crawler! Get away from me! Please don't kill me! Oh no! Aah!"

I cut off the recording here. The boy was smart. He made a sound recording of his last few moments. There was no point performing an autopsy, the body was just mangled to nothing. I can't identify it.

I need to tell Zeph it won't be long before he gets targeted.

I step out of my secluded home in the forest and start the walk to Applerun Make.

I'm not even halfway there when a horrible earthquake hits.

The ground shakes violently, threatening to knock me off my feet. There's a creaking noise next to me. The tree is falling.

I run.

Like dominoes, trees surrounding the road fall, several missing me. I make it onto the main street, stumbling onto a site of utter calamity. There is a huge crack in the centre of the road. Buildings are falling, cars are crushed. I run down the pavement, dodging falling rocks and bricks. I'm nearly at the end of the street when something skims the side of head. It isn't much, but it's enough to knock me over. My head spins, and I black out.

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