Magic Academy: Finding My Mate
Instead, they screech like vultures and grab her legs, dragging her into a hole in the ground.
Her frightened scream makes me open my eyes and search beneath the tree. It seems someone has dug in this spot before, but that doesn't stop me from clawing up dirt. Wet mud presses underneath my nails, and the smell of soil infiltrates my mind, yet I keep on digging, shrieking when I find a bloodied hand.
"OH MY GOD!"
Panic swells within me, and I don't breathe until I feel large hands drag me away from the rotten hand attached to a thin, injured, purple arm—if I keep on digging, I will find a dead body.