Chapter 28

Panic takes over every sense as my body presses against a muddy wall. I slide down the steep side of the cliff, my fingers scratching hopelessly as I try grip anything to stop my fast descent. My foot catches on something hard, my body crumbling over it as start to roll back away from the safety of the side of the cliff.

Everything moves in slow motion, my arms flying out the cry the breaks from my lips as I tumble backwards rolling head over heels pain lacing through my body as I try to catch my breath.

I land with a heavy thud, what little oxygen I have in my body evaterpates as I wheeze. Cold rain hammers me in the face, mud splashing around me as small rocks land and settle in. I know I have to get up and move, to try and run away but getting my fingers twitch is the best I can do.

The rain stops Over my face and I focus my eyes on the face directly above mine. A young woman blinks at me then tilts her head, a frown on her lips as she squats and reaches through the mud beneath