Go on (ending to try to run)

From Create Your Own Story

Go on (try to run)

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…And pain sears through your arm as it tears into the flesh hungrily. You scream, the pain is unbearable. A gun goes off and the animal shrieks. You can see a bullet wound when you push it off of your body. The caretaker grins at you, his rifle slung over his shoulder, still smoking. “Those things wander in from time to time, need to patch the fence, but don’t got the man power to do so. Know what I mean?” He grabs your uninjured arm and pulls. You cry out, not caring anymore. He leers wider at you, enjoying it. “Now what you doin’ in here at night, Ain’t you heard the rumours. They true, you know. Many people gone missing, just like you, ‘cuz they’re too damn lazy to walk the main road. That’s why it’s locked. Come on now, I’ll drive ya down to the hospital, and when you betta, we gonna fix my fence. Even I need my BEA-uty sleep.” You squint at him, trying to understand his speech. You’ve never heard someone talk with such abandon, it confuses you. But you limp after him, trying to seem more pitiful. You have a date tomorrow and, hopefully more after, and don’t want to spend your time fixing fences with a lunatic. Who is leaning so close to you that you can see his spinach supper in his teeth. You drive to the hospital with no more incidents, and a different date then hoped for the next night. You sleep like a vampire, and have a strange urge to howl at the bright full moon….