Chapter 15 – The Disappearing in Shadow
"What... just happened?"
Captain Darius's voice sounded stiff in the dust-filled air, thick with the smell of gunpowder.The entire battlefield around the mall was destroyed. Concrete walls riddled with holes, tanks in flames, and unmoving bodies scattered across pools of blood.
But the figure at the center of it all the creature they had dubbed the Zombie Witch—was gone. Vanished without a trace.
"Target has gone dark," said one of the operators with a trembling voice, staring at the screen of his military tablet. "The last drone lost signal when she moved... we don't know in which direction. That wasn't normal speed. That wasn't Dash like before. It was... something else."
Sofia stood not far from them. Dust clung to her white cloak, and her face was pale. She had seen with her own eyes how the creature endured a brutal, assault. How she tore through dozens of soldiers without hesitation. How her body was drenched in blood—yet her eyes... They weren't the eyes of a monster.
They were the eyes of someone betrayed.
"Someone give me a playback of her last movement—now!" barked Lt. Colonel Adrian from the command post. His voice shook—not from anger, but fear.
The drone footage appeared on a large screen mounted on one of the command trucks. Everyone fell silent, On screen the zombie witch staggered in the middle of the battlefield. Her body was nearly destroyed, but she still stood. Then she ran and vanished ,Not escaped or Not hiding.
Vanished.