The Bones She Buried

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The screams followed her, echoing all around her as she sprinted along the ridge and fled into the darkness, her feet scrabbling over the brush and loose stones. To her right was a sheer drop, hundreds of feet down. She didn’t know just how far, but she knew the fall would be enough to kill her. To her left was a wall of dense forest.

When the first gunshot sounded, she veered left into the trees.

Branches slapped at her arms and face, slicing thin ribbons of blood into her fair skin. A tree root snagged her toes, sending her flying. Leaves and stones rose up to meet her and her elbow cracked against a large rock, sending an agonizing shot of pain through her arm and up into her skull. Still, she heard the screaming in the distance. Her breath came in gasps as she scrambled to her feet, holding her elbow close to her body. Tears leaked from her eyes, but panic and the will to survive drove her deeper into the forest.

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