Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Ruins pt. 16

Kay is walking next to me. 
She is tough, but as we talk I can see bits of her personality come through.  She even laughs when Nora makes a silly joke. 

I ask if her she really thinks that it’ll be better outside of the city. 

“Can’t be worse. We’re all huddled up here, too many nooks and crannies for those things to hide in.  Out there, we can fortify a house, maybe find a community.”

The other two, the men, are walking ahead of us. 
They freeze.

“Hey, why’d you…”
Kay doesn’t finish her sentence.

We see the bridge, and the small tunnel beyond. 
The tunnel shouldn’t look like a solid, black wall.
The tunnel shouldn’t be filled with swirling, breathing shadows.

The tunnel is our way out.

Whatever is in that tunnel doesn’t want to let us out.

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