keyofjetwolf:

This should probably get a title, and maybe it will later. For now, it’s merely this.

Mondays are prompt days, and mine was Rei and Michiru in a narrow side alley. I finished this literally at the last minute, and I kind of wish I’d started earlier (A RECURRING THEME FOR THIS MONTH OF EXERCISES) so I could have fleshed it out better. Still, Holligay quite liked despite that, and thus I post!

About 1100 words of delight.

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Were they being followed? Rei’s every
instinct screamed yes and painted her pictures in vivid, excruciating detail.
The cold, scaled hands tightening around her ankle and yanking her back into
oblivion were too real, and she could feel her leg tense and her skin crawl as
she ran. Sharp, salivating maws lurked around every corner, ready to snap her
up. Her stomach clenched and her blood became ice as she could feel them
sinking into her torso. Would she still feel it as the fangs scraped against
her spine before scissoring her in two? Yes,
her mind assured her. Yes yes yes.

Rei shifted her companion
a little higher and ran faster.

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