Vivian Confidential - Part Ten

We had come to the end of the narrow road. Before us lay a small clearing among the trees. The red dirt area was bare except for a lone oak tree. Long branches extended from the tree and something hung from one of the branches by a rope. G pulled away from my grasp and walked toward it, striking a match for illumination. Behind us we heard another low growl.

"For God’s sake, let’s get out of here," I said.

"Wait, " G said. "Its not human. It’s a deer carcass."

She was right. I could see it in the flickering light of the rapidly dying match and rays of the full moon as they filtered through the leaves. Someone had shot a deer and hung its body from a branch to butcher it. They had taken only the haunches and left the rest of the carcass to blow in a gentle breeze. We had another problem. There was something else in the clearing with us. Like the deer, it wasn’t human either. Worse, it was between us and the road.

G and I turned as one. She grabbed my arm hard enough to cut off the blood circulation when she saw what it was. I wanted to scream but the muscles in my throat had constricted. Even though my mouth was open, not a single peep issued. G was also speechless though not quite as cemented in place as I. Releasing her grip on my arm, she broke and ran toward the dark thicket of trees. Her reaction broke my trance. Whirling around, I raced after her.

Before going 10 yards I knew that our flight was useless. My ears, nose, and senses I didn’t know I possessed, informed me with a straight shot of adrenaline that the beast we had seen in the clearing, by the light of the full moon, was coming after us.
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