Chapter 11: Fighting Retreat
William Oh once killed a dozen kaith without moving a muscle. – Jason Salazar.
What, with like, a trap? – Onlooker.
With his very gaze. - Jason Salazer
Case file 8934: Ashwood
“RUN!”
They all knew they didn’t have a chance if the kaith bogged them down. They would be dragged down one by one, their biomass added to the ‘supplies’ the kaith were transporting to their central hive.
June bolted down the narrow ledge back the way they came, bounding out in front of them like a startled deer.
Mason followed shortly after, all pretense of noble bearing lost as he scrambled forward, dipping down to his hands and knees where he needed extra grip, without losing any of the desperate speed.
Reggie tried to follow close behind, his ostentatious heavy armor causing more harm than help as his oversized pauldrons caught a jutting piece of rock, sending him teetering over the edge.