Escape now and try to get home
From Create Your Own Story
What home? You ponder, you have no place you can call home. There are only places to sleep, steal and hide from the authorities and gangs alike. Nevertheless, you can always just go back to lurking around your usual alleys. You don't appreciate being thrusted into an unfamiliar environment such as this. With a sigh, you turn around to leave and begin to walk down the stairs. Stepping off the final stair, you suddenly sense something coming your way. Something fast. Something dangerous. You dive to the ground just as a projectile hits the ground where you were with a metallic clang. Gasping, you roll yourself back onto your feet, senses on high alert. You strain to raise your head to find a thin, dark figure menacingly striding towards you. It doesn't seem to take its eyes off you as it reloads the crossbow mounted on its right wrist. You feel a cold sweat seeping down your spine, and you can't tell whether your body wants to freeze , fight or fly. You feel true fear for the first time in years. The silhouette stops not 10 metres away and cocks its half-concealed face. You flinch as its voice abruptly permeates the silent, eerie air.
"I am impressed. It's not often you find someone with precognitive abilities." To your surprise the voice is feminine, and contains no hint of malice. As if to ease your fears, it says, "The dart was filled with a sedative. I meant no harm, we just cannot risk you leaving us at a time like this."
At a time like this?
She removes the scarf from the bottom half of her face, breathing in the cold night air. "Come. There is food and a warm bed waiting inside." Her voice and body language are welcoming and gentle, under other circumstances you might relax, yet you have already inferred that she isn’t giving you a choice. Despite yourself you begin to feel your own exhaustion catch up with you, along with an agonizing appetite, nothing would make you happier than a meal and a good night’s sleep.
