meat_mooks ([personal profile] meat_mooks) wrote in [community profile] trans_9 2012-02-03 10:18 pm (UTC)

Cedric and the Monster

The window does. Beyond is a yard with dried grass and a wooden fence, easy enough to vault over, and the rest of the small city. It's like a ghost town if everyone suddenly abandoned the surburban 80's. Cars, stop signs, even a small playground and an elementary school. All abandoned.

The monster follows Cedric back down the hole and into the room with the bodies. The bodies themselves appear to have once been a family of three. Their ribcages have been ripped open and insides eaten out. Slug-looking masses the size of a person's fist sit inside the chest cavities, growing and incubated. It sniffs the air again and tilts its head - with all the scent of decay here and poor eyesight, it's hard to locate Cedric, but once it's pinpointed him it lunges again.

A fraction of a second too late to get him before he escapes through the window, and it can't possibly hope to fit. It starts slamming through a door in hopes of following Cedric.

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