PLAGUED

The intense battle between holding and catching my breath after this intense chase kept on raging. The armed men marching ferociously, scattering everything in sight.

Flanking them on the left were men in hazmat suits, wielding flamethrowers.

'It's game over for you', the commander yelled. 'Come out of your hiding place, I'm not a big fan of hide and seek'

The flamethrowers moved in, setting every everything ablaze.

'Its hot here', he said

'Don't do something stupid again'

'I can't hold it any longer'

My skin darkened, forming lesions. My heart beat faster as I gradually lost all energy to move.

'There you are', the man in hazmat suit said, stretching his hand to get me with a wide grin on his face.

Then came the black out...

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The ashes lay down all around. The warehouse was completely burnt to the ground using the dead bodies as additional fuel. I freed myself from the severed hand of the hamzat suit man then, made a run for it, AGAIN