The shot went past
her head. She could hear the soft whistle, feel the slight shift of the air as
it streamed beyond her. One moment she was facing down the fiend who’d nearly
trapped her in another world. Who had succeeded in trapping others.
She watched the
look in the man’s eyes as they widened. His fall to the ground had her
confused.
Turning slowly she
came fact to face with someone she hadn’t been expecting.
“I finally caught
up with you.”
Her vocal chords
forgot how to work. She barely managed to gape like a fish,. She didn’t think
her eyes could grow any larger, nor her lids open further.
“Do you know how
long it took me? After that last conversation?”
She continued to
stare, uncertain if this was another vivid dream or someone was pulling her
leg.
“After that last
conversation I realized that I needed to do something to change. Certainly all
the movements going around also helped spur me off the main drag. I retired,
you know.”
She watched him,
wondering if gaping would be acceptable.
Another shot rang
past her. She jumped.
“What?”
The word escaped
her lips on a confused brush of air.
“He was
twitching.”
Confusion was her
best option here.
“I went to your home
town, looking for you.”
She raised her
eyebrows.
“I saw what had
happened, then began asking around.” He chuckled, “I suppose I would have made
a great detective.”
She was an
intelligent, resourseful woman, but for the life of her, she couldn’t remember
how to use actual words.
Another shot rang
in her ears.
“What the heck was
that for?”
She spun around to
find the fiend had crawled up behind her.
“What?”
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