the Price of Life

This is a story about two sisters. Their names are Hi and Yoru. Day and Night. They are stuck in a wilderness, trying to find civilization, only to find they are trapped in an alternate dimension. There are small groups of others who have been drugged and brought here to that place, called Htrae, as punishment for crimes unknown, and all they have are their matching lockets, given to them by their kidnapped father. The last thing you expect when you clicked and started reading is that they're shape shifters.

OneWeekAtKeishas published on October 17, 2016not completed

Running

We had been running for a while. I had noticed an evil presence behind us, heard whatever it was chasing us. It was large and heavy, and it ran on two legs. I heard a cape - or wings - whistling behind it, and it smelled of burning flesh and... honey? No. Not honey. It was the sweet scent of milk, like a newborn child sucking its mother. This thing behind us must've preyed upon unprotected mothers and their young, no matter what species. And from time to time, it let out terrible screeches of rage, and at the time I could only say they sounded like an enraged vulture. I now know the thing in question is called a Nomed.

Hi and I had been running for a while. I stopped, realizing I could not hear the beast anymore. Hi saw me, and after swiveling her ears and sniffing the air, relaxed. She still had a terrified look in her eyes, and her breath came in short gasps, like mine. She darted into the bushes and beckoned to me with her tail, then opened her mouth to speak. "What was >gasp< that thing? >gasp< It almost killed us!" " I don't know, but I know we have to be careful," was all I had in me to say. I looked at Hi, then collapsed on the ground. I had whited out.

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