Chapter 8

The Captial

My arms hurt from keeping me wrapped around the damnned tree. Sleep keeps attempting to overtake me, but if I ever allow myself to, I'll fall splat against the ground. Something catches my eye stirring in the shadows, the ground thudding tumultously, trees swinging left and right. Something large was coming and it was coming fast.

I crouch closer towards my side of the tree, my partner oblivious to what was about to occur in short order. A gasp leaves one of the females, a few trees down from me, when the monsters of the night break through the canopy. Their large forms lumber beneath us, nose sniffling and growling and I brace myself hoping they left us alone.

A high pitched scream pierces the silent night, before the chaos begins. There's scrambling from all the trees around me, shouts to hurry and escape thrown into the night. Bodies fall from the trees, people jumping, others too terrfied to move and become devoured. For the first time in my life, I saw the real face