Mosquito bitten and worn, Logan pushed aside tangled rushes, and reeds, using a flashlight as a guide to wade through the shallow marsh. It did not help that the pouring rain flooded the sedges, they stepped over as lightning streaked across the sky.
The light landed on a crocodile on the hunt. A hiss broke from the reptile’s snout that opened, exposing its conical teeth. Reeda squealed and rushed away. “Help me!” A voice shouted. Logan spun around just in time to see Reeda as she sunk deeper into the earth submerged in quicksand. The six of them rushed to save her. Francis and Logan gripped onto her hands.
“I’m being swallowed!” She cried, as Francis and Logan pulled on her, they could feel it enclosing around her torso hardening.
“Reeda, if we continue to …show more content…
The further they traveled the dimmer it became. Low tone voices clamored, turning to torturous whispers.
Their eyes searched to find the source of the chatter, but there was nothing but the wildlife. Shrill cries a little girl being tortured captured their attention. Eshe fell to her knees and covered her ears.
“My sister” She cried.
“Don’t listen, they’re playing games with your head, it’s not her you hear!” Logan helped her up. Just as Ava and Francis pushed forward a corpse wrapped in a vine and sprung out at them from the coiled trees. Ava shrieked as she looked up at her deceased mother.
“It’s not real” Francis reassured her as he took his shaken sister into his arms. A choir of laughter burst from the hills and the rain that poured down on them turned to blood.
They struggled to cling to their sanity as the whispers grew louder muting their thoughts, and the stench of decaying flesh clogged their nostrils. Shelia ran ahead of them, she hopped over carcasses swarmed with flies and maggots that wormed out of every orifice unable to stomach any more of the death that mocked
The light landed on a crocodile on the hunt. A hiss broke from the reptile’s snout that opened, exposing its conical teeth. Reeda squealed and rushed away. “Help me!” A voice shouted. Logan spun around just in time to see Reeda as she sunk deeper into the earth submerged in quicksand. The six of them rushed to save her. Francis and Logan gripped onto her hands.
“I’m being swallowed!” She cried, as Francis and Logan pulled on her, they could feel it enclosing around her torso hardening.
“Reeda, if we continue to …show more content…
The further they traveled the dimmer it became. Low tone voices clamored, turning to torturous whispers.
Their eyes searched to find the source of the chatter, but there was nothing but the wildlife. Shrill cries a little girl being tortured captured their attention. Eshe fell to her knees and covered her ears.
“My sister” She cried.
“Don’t listen, they’re playing games with your head, it’s not her you hear!” Logan helped her up. Just as Ava and Francis pushed forward a corpse wrapped in a vine and sprung out at them from the coiled trees. Ava shrieked as she looked up at her deceased mother.
“It’s not real” Francis reassured her as he took his shaken sister into his arms. A choir of laughter burst from the hills and the rain that poured down on them turned to blood.
They struggled to cling to their sanity as the whispers grew louder muting their thoughts, and the stench of decaying flesh clogged their nostrils. Shelia ran ahead of them, she hopped over carcasses swarmed with flies and maggots that wormed out of every orifice unable to stomach any more of the death that mocked