Beast

Cristine lives inside the secluded town walls of Fortis, with her mother and younger brother, a job at the hospital, a best friend named Lindsey and another named Cam. The worst of her problems were finding the correct plants to be ground up for medicine. Fourteen years had passed inside the walls for her, and no more were to come.

'The walls groaned as they bent in. Another smash. Whatever was on the other side of the wall wasn't going to remain outside for much longer.'

Everyone feared the Nightbeast's. They were wolf-like creatures with a coat as black as night, and eyes so dark they looked like empty sockets. If you stayed outside the walls past dusk, chances were that you wouldn't survive the night. The beast that knocked down the walls that had protected the, for so long wasn't close to a Nightbeast. No, the Beast was far worse. The fact that Cris survived the initial attack was a miracle. Now it was a game which only let the strongest survive.

Nobody knows where they originated from. Not themselves, the Nightbeast's. Cristine had never been told by her parents where exactly they came from either, or why she was here in these town walls. Now was a great time to find out.

Cristine now thinks of life as a moving object that she must chase. Always running, always on the move. Always having to change in order to survive. If she stopped, she was sure to be faced with what could easily claim itself as her greatest nightmare.

Beast.

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