Untold: The Complete Watcher Series Mini Novellas (Watcher #4) by A. J. Everley

Author:A. J. Everley [Everley, A. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07BT1LFQC
Published: 2018-03-27T23:00:00+00:00

The sun was hot and high as I walked through the dense forest with a little less worry in my heart. It took me a week to discover that these creatures did not come out during the day time. I assumed they could not handle the heat, especially mid-summer heat, and I wondered if they could even see in the light of day. So on that day I was happy, happy that I may just have my first meal in four days. If I could keep it down that is.

I’d already had to braid stringy vines together to create a belt for the pants that now hung loose around my waist from near starvation and vomiting out my guts when the fear and anxiety took over, as it often did. The only food I’d been able to find were sour apples and thick meal worms that tasted nasty. The rest I left alone. I didn’t dare eat the meat that had been bred in The Wasteland, not that I could have killed anything if I tried. I didn’t know what else the nuclear fumes from a war long past had done to this forest. I’d seen what they’d done to the creatures that hunted me, and I could only imagine what else lay in wait for its turn at me.

I had one weapon, a long hunting knife that I wielded with piss poor precision. I’d never even held one before the day my father gave it in to me and told me to run like hell, and I did.

So far I had successfully cut myself four times and nearly impaled myself once when I slipped down a hill with it still in my hand. I learned my lesson after that near miss and it was now wrapped tightly within my worn jacket, which I had tied around my waist.

I reached the edge of the crystal clear creek I’d found on my second week here. I was so thirsty I didn’t even stop to consider that the water could have been tainted. It was cool and crisp in my hot dry mouth. I gulped it down as if I wouldn’t see water ever again. That night the only pain I felt was from my too full belly, so I had deemed this creek safe to drink from.

As night began to fall and the air cooled a bit, I crawled back up the tree and slid into the crevice of the stone wall where I barely fit. My current safe haven. I stationed myself back as far as I could, and waited. They would no doubt track me down once again, and like most nights I would stay awake waiting for that tell-tale sign that they had arrived. I held my knife out in front of me, thinking that perhaps this way I stood a chance. But the fact that I didn’t even know how to hold it didn’t build my confidence much.

The sun set quickly as darkness filled the forest. Night, like I had never experienced until I had arrived here, took hold.

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