Hella Rises: Dawnland by Carr Karen

Author:Carr, Karen [Carr, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Muletown Press
Published: 2014-12-06T16:00:00+00:00

I spent the rest of the day surrounded by twenty to thirty people at all times. I was aware that Trevan and Lily were close bye, but no one let them near me. I made arrangements with a couple of the guys to follow Trevan and another few to follow Lily to give them a taste of their own medicine.

Finally, after dinner I enlisted the help of Stan and Saudah and was able to sneak away to my house. It was dark out by the time we were done with dinner. We sent a young woman who looked like me off in my golf cart and then I snuck out of the back of the new restaurant where we were having dinner.

Before we left, Zora had given me an all-black outfit, hoping that I would be camouflaged in the night. She even gave me a ski mask that I could pull down over my face and a pair of black combat boots. I snuck into the alley, put on the black gloves and pulled down the ski mask. After that, I ran through several blocks, making sure I wasn’t being followed.

I then ducked in the stand of trees that would lead me behind my old house and stealthily made my way through them. Finding my way through the woods in the dark was hard, but at least Hipslow had cleared this patch of the underbrush. I walked along thinking I was an animal, remembering what it was like to be alone those first few weeks. A piece of my heart wanted to be alone again, when I didn’t have so many entanglements. I was truly free back then. My burden had increased so much since those days. I was now responsible for over eighty nine people and counting.

I arrived at my backyard, but still didn’t move out of the woods. I watched my house in the dim light of the moon, thinking of the dead body in the outhouse. So much had transpired since I left, that I hadn’t had time to ask anyone about it. I was just about to move forward into the yard, when I heard a snap of a twig behind me.

I froze and held my breath.

I saw the figure. It was a tall man with a slender but muscular physique. The figure was making his way through the woods toward me from the opposite direction. I was right in his path. If I didn’t move, he would find me.

I decided to try and blend into the tree I was standing against and moved my body behind it, accidentally pushing a branch on the ground in the process. It wouldn’t have been a big deal, but the branch was long and skinny and made a scraping and crunching noise through the dead leaves and twigs as it moved. Anyone who wasn’t deaf would have heard it in the still night.

I held my breath and poked my head around the tree to see where the figure went. Suddenly, the man grabbed me from behind and I shrieked.

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