Aspiring Sociopath [ open ]
Aug 17, 2013 22:15:28 GMT -5
Post by crocell on Aug 17, 2013 22:15:28 GMT -5
The evening is over,
another morning, another opportunity
to do something progressive prove that he's worthy
another morning, another opportunity
to do something progressive prove that he's worthy
"Run! Move your damn legs fast, one after the other. Faster! Faster than that girl. Run away from me." Crocell mocked to his escapee.
He tried to concentrate on finding his way through the dark, dense forest. The tall Islara pines were like umbrellas that filtered light onto the hardwoods that grew beneth them. There wasn't enough light for the young saplings, and they stood like upright tree skeletons. Making it impossible to go three feet without hitting one.
He had to get her now. He had to catch her, and kill her if he did. He was pretty sure she hadn't hurt him very badly, though Earth Mother knows she had tried.
Crocell settled into a herky-jerky rhythm of running and stumbling forward. The forest floor was soft and spongy, a carpet of pine straw and leaves. Long spindly briar brambles grew straight up from the ground, reaching for the sunlight. He felt like a bramble himself.
"She must rest . . . hide . . . let the drugs wear off." Crocell mumbled to himself, breathless from the pursuit. "Then go get help . . . logical thing to do."
Then he heard her crashing about just in front of him. Crocell barked out her name. "Ira! Ira! Stop right now!" His voice echoed loudly through the forest.
His bravado had meant that nobody was around for miles; nobody to help her in the godforsaken woods. The dane was on her own out there.
"Ira! I'm going to get you! It's inevitable, so stop running!"
He climbed a steep, rocky hill that seemed like Mount Everest in his exhausted state. A black snake was sunning itself on a smooth patch of rock. The snake looked like a fallen tree limb, Croceel almost stooped down to pick it up. He thought he could use it as a weapon. The startled black snake slithered away.
"Ira! Ira! You're doomed! I'm so angry now!"
Crocell watched as the harlequin dane mix went down hard in a mesh of honeysuckle and pointy rocks. Excruciating pain shot trough his left leg, but he pushed the pain aside. Ignore the pain. Ignore the pain. Keep going, get her.
He was very close to her know. "I'm right here, Ira! Hey, Ira, I'm coming up behind you! Here I am!"
Ira had finally turned around. Curiosity and terror must have got the best of her. She could see his white pelt flashing though the almost-black trees behind him.
Crocell started laughing loudly.
Ira had stopped running.
Crocell whispered, "Earth Mother's will." That was all there was now, nothing else.
The top of the steep hill ended abruptly in a canyon. Steep, sheer rock dropped at least a hundred feet. Only a few bare scrub pines grew out of the rock. There was nowhere to, and nowhere to run. Crocell knew it was such a sad, lonely place to die. She had not followed The House rules, so she must die.
"Poor Ira!" Crocell screamed. "Poor baby!"
Ira turned away from him, turned her back on the casanova. She peered down at the steep valley of rocks and trees. It was a hundred feet, maybe more than that.
She heard him scream her name. "Ira, no!"
She didn't look behind her again.
Ira jumped.
The last thing Ira heard was Crocell's screams from high above.
He turned away from the steep sloop, placing his haunches on the rocky edge. "Ira is gone." Crocell spoke, "my sister is dead."'words, 573
notes, yay! First post.
tags, OPEN