Dream State by K. Z. Howell

Author:K. Z. Howell [Howell, K. Z.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Published: 2017-10-16T06:00:00+00:00

Jen bit down on her hand so hard it left deep grooves for every tooth in the soft skin. Any sound, any movement, could draw the attention of the two men who stood mere feet away. The darkening shadow kept her hidden in the deeper darkness of the crack she took refuge in, her fear grew with each deafening beat of her heart. She knew they had spotted Will when one of them pointed and they took off at a run.

She waited only a minute, when there were no more sounds echoing along the rock she slipped out and timidly took off for the open area. She peeked out from the shadow of a tall column at the very edge and saw seven men with guns speeding toward the end of the crevasse. Her blood ran cold as she realized will’s ruse had worked. He was leading them away, but that meant he would soon be at their mercy. A sound drew her attention; she looked up and waited as the drone passed overhead and curved left away from her planned direction. As soon as it was out of sight she ran as hard as she could for the opening and didn’t pause as she passed through and turned right. She had two hundred yards of open space to clear before she would be back in the protection of the narrow canyon beyond and out of sight of the men or the drone. She had been here twice with Will, the path back to the Old Miller cabin was through a series of twisting and deep ravines. This late in the day she would be in almost full darkness as she moved. She ran full out, expecting to hear a shout or feel a bullet at any moment.

She made it to the next rift and kept going. The winding, dimly lit trail was difficult to follow. She almost fell several times as an unseen stone turned under her feet. She backed off of her pace. Twisting an ankle would leave her helpless and trapped. Pausing to catch her breath, she turned and listened. There was no sound but that of the wind as it wound its way along the canyons many rifts and crevasses.

She started back along the shadowy path at a steady jog, her eyes rarely looking ahead in her concentration on her own footsteps. She suddenly found herself at the edge of a more brightly lit open area. She recognized it from her previous visits. There were two exits but she couldn’t remember whether the one she needed was the wide one that led to her left or the narrow one directly in front of her. She scanned the sky overhead, when she saw no sign of the spy craft she bolted for the wide path and ran nearly a hundred yards before she realized that she had chosen wrong. This trail was level and had boulders strewn along the floor. The one she needed sloped upward and led out of this canyon to a narrow strip of flat escarpment before sloping down to the cabin.

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