Knotting the Hunter
"We still don’t know if Dana is going to pull through, and it smiled when it tried to eat me. We have to kill it."
The bolt goes through the breastbone.
The body arches on impact, then settles again.
And keeps breathing.
"Burn it," Tori says, white to the lips.
Reena's already coming down the steps with the fuel can from the truck bed.
We're outside in the long grass when the smoke starts to rise through the doorway, and that's when the screaming comes back.
Out of the greying sky, ragged, listing, guts shredded and swinging. It circles the smoke twice, three times, that beautiful face turned down to stare at what we've done, shrieking.
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