He moved fast, one swift movement and she fell, cracking her head on the stone.
For a moment I thought she must be dead, but then she moved, and he loomed over her, something metallic flashing in the moonlight.
A jagged knife
I picked up a branch and swung it at the killer, connecting with his back.
“Stop!” I shrieked, as the wind picked up around me.
The face that turned to me just felt wrong, like there wasnothingbehind that mask. Nothing but a fucking barely sentient meat suit.
“Get the fuck out of here!” I tried to yell, but my voice was barely more than a whisper.
He twisted with an eerie whistle and I saw a knife dripping with blood.
He took one step toward me. Then another.
“No!” I croaked, swinging out at him again, this time connecting harder, my blow landing on his face, but there was a metallic scrape, like he orithad a metal mask.
My blows seemed to have no effect on the monster!
Despair seized me and I stumbled backwards, tripping over one of the low gravestones and landing on my ass.
But one thing I knew as I kicked desperately out at the killer.
This wasn’t Gabriel.
Itdidn’t feellike him, the fear I tasted on my tongue wasn’t his.
Thispsycho didn’t care if I lived or died.
The killer took a swing at me as the chill night wind rattled through the iron gates, and I had to roll desperately away as the blade clanged off the headstone.
“Run!” I screamed at the woman. “Run away!”
Who the fuckwasthis?
Eyes flashed at me through the mask and I couldn’t help narrowing my own.
Who was it?
It seemed like I’d seen those eyes before, but I couldn’t remember where. . .
He swung at me again, this time catching the edge of my costume, pinning me against the gravestone.
Shit! Rain began to pelt down on my face as I kicked out hopelessly, because now I was trapped on the ground.
Just as the monster raised the knife--
Suddenly an earsplitting mechanical screech blasted through the trees.
What the fuck?
It was so loud I had to put my hands over my ears, my heels scrabbling desperately in the dirt.
It was so loud I saw the drunk girl start to stir, blearily turn around and stumble to her feet.
Where was this coming from?
