Out of the Devil's Mouth by Travis Thrasher

Author:Travis Thrasher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Moody Publishers

For a few minutes, there was complete and utter terror.

I couldn’t get the swirling, contorting vines out of my mind. They were exactly like snakes. And there were hundreds of them, perhaps all linked and coiled together. I felt surrounded. And smothered. And suffocated.

I heard some shouts. Two camaradas were nearby, flailing at the ground with their legs. Several others had taken off in complete hysteria. Kate was yelling—Max went to her. I couldn’t see Istu.

I threw some branches into the fire, then tossed a few heavy chunks of wood on top. Then I took a long leafy branch in my hand and lit it on fire. It took a couple of minutes but soon it was burning fast and bright.

I took it over to Anton, who was dripping with sweat as he swung his machete furiously. He looked like a man possessed.

Which he was, I decided. He had just shot a man who was being suffocated by vines.

Yeah, I’d probably look that way too. Maybe I did.

For a second, I looked down at Paulo. Vines were wrapped around his body, especially his neck. And I could see them going into his mouth.

“Here, give me that,” Anton said. “Get more. Bring more.”

Anton took the branch and set it on the vines. Some of them lit and turned black as they fizzled out. The patch around the burning branch suddenly was clear. Unlike the rest of the ground all around us.

I suddenly noticed that I was standing on these vines. They encompassed our entire campsite. All around our tents, everywhere. Everywhere except for around the fire.

Now I could see Anton’s logic.

They moved like snakes. I rushed to the fire and did the same thing with another branch, setting it ablaze and then coming back out and giving it to him. He would go around and light some of the vines on fire, making it spread and move like retreating reptiles.

“Where’s Istu?” he asked me.

“I don’t know,” I said, going back to the fire.

“Max? Hey, Max, are you okay?” Anton called.

“Yes.”

“Go back in the tent and stay with Kate.”

“I don’t know if we should do that.”

We looked back at Max and Kate who stood near the fire.

“Those—those things—have gotten in the tents.”

“Then help us with the fire. We need to make a big ring around our site. Make sure we keep those things out.”

I looked at the trees that surrounded us. And I recalled Istu’s words.

This place is cursed.

I found it interesting that the man who’d said this was nowhere to be found.

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