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Trees. Trees <span class="mu-i">everywhere</span>. You know it’s a forest, but still, once you get some distance from the mansion it finally dawns on you just how isolated you are out here–and how utterly screwed you’d be if someone got really hurt.
‘<span class="mu-i">Call the Nurse</span>’... yea, that’ll work!
The three of you slide down an embankment into an area bordering a small, trickling creek and hop over when Rodney’s ears perk up!
“Aw <span class="mu-i">SHIT!</span>”
Not bothering to hiss anything else, your fellow Pizza Guy wastes no time in darting behind a nearby tree which prompts you and Raj to follow suit!
It doesn’t take long to see what rattled him. Crouched inside of a fern at the base of a pine tree, you hear it long before you see it–the familiar heavy footfalls of the thing that went toe-to-giant toe with Moose!
This time, though, the stalker seems to have bagged a much smaller quarry. Hanging limp from the slasher’s machete is an unfamiliar girl with long brown hair that drags along the ground as the stalker marches with some unknown purpose towards the direction you came from!
Pausing for a moment, the figure clad in black coveralls slowly scans the woods around it for any sign of new prey… you’re just about ready to book it when the figure abandons its search and continues deeper into the woods with its heavy, plodding steps.
It’s only when the shape fades into the shadows that you hear a faint, gurgling cough come from the direction it departed in…
Holding your hiding spot until you’re <span class="mu-i">certain</span> the stalker is gone, you get out of the bushes and make a beeline for Rodney as he too rises from his spot!
“Yeesh,” he remarks as he sees you coming, “Better her than us, right gu-<span class="mu-s">OOF!</span>”
Crumpling to the forest floor from one punch to the gut, your ‘<span class="mu-i">old pal</span>’ winces as you make your way over to Raj to find him still huddled behind a tree.
Did you know her?
“Y-yea…” He stammers, still processing what just happened, “T-Tracy Sutherland… w-we were in Science together…”
You take one last look in the direction the shape went before helping the skater up from his spot. C’mon, dude, you mutter under your breath, that just means we won’t be running into him in the mine…
>CONTD.
