Knotting the Hunter
The rattle again, but faster, tighter, climbing, and it takes me a second to place it.
Teeth.
It sounds like teeth chattering.
It's afraid.
All of them are.
Every dead thing stitched into that frame heard a boy scream and remembered making the same sound once upon a time, and the entire skeleton is standing in the dark trembling.
"Reena!" I scream so loud it feels like my vocal cords are ripping. "Now! Aim for the head!"
The chainsaw doesn't even cough.
One cut, prepped two days deep, and ninety feet of oak comes off its notch and swings down through the canopy and the skull takes it dead center.
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