In one last desperate bid for survival, Kira dove, sliding the last few feet through the quickly narrowing gap.
There was a loud crash and the ground trembled.
Panting, shocked that she was still alive, Kira sat facing rigidly forward, her eyes trained on the endless rows before her.In the aftermath of what just happened, the unexpectedly mundane sight felt surreal.
Slowly, slowly, she glanced back over her shoulder.
A neon colored skull grinned at her.Macabre and bright.X’s in place of eyes.Stitch marks for its mouth.
Kira patted its forehead.“Close one.”
Too close.
Graydon’s voice echoed from afar.“Kira!”
Relief swept through her.“Here!”
Oh, thank God.Graydon was alive.She wasn’t going to have to sift through this gigantic mess looking for his crushed body.
“Stay there.Don’t go anywhere,” Graydon yelled, sounding a little closer than before.
“Like there’s anywhere for me to go,” Kira muttered, looking at the endless rows.
With a grimace, Kira tried pushing to her feet.
Her body protested.
Loudly.
Kira lowered back down.“Shit.”
She hurt.Every muscle.Every tendon.They screamed from the abuse she’d heaped on them without a second thought.
The worst was her ankle.
Kira moved it and immediately wished she hadn’t as it started throbbing.
“Yeah, that’s definitely twisted,” she murmured.
She’d probably done it when she rolled off the container and landed wrong.Thank goodness for adrenaline.
There was a loud crack somewhere in the mess of containers.
“No,” Kira whined.
Why?Why did this always have to happen to her?It was someone else’s turn.
Crack.Crack.Crack.
Kira threw herself forward.Where she was just sitting, the floor caved in, the mess of containers falling into the gaping maw.Her skull friend among them.
More and more containers slid into the sink hole, expanding it outward.
“No, no, no,” Kira moaned, scrabbling for a handhold as the floor fell out from under her.
By some miracle she managed to grab the edge of a container, hanging on for dear life even as it started to tilt.
This was the end.She was going down.
