![]() ![]() “We need another way.”Īs if in answer, a roar erupted from the dark, shaking the trees around them and silencing the buzzing chorus of insects and frogs. In the other he held a sparkling silver pistol. By her side stood a man with long dark hair streaked with silver it fell about his face and covered his eyes. Scratches crisscrossed her pale arms, and a gash on her cheek bled freely. One was a girl with wide eyes, as fierce as lightning flashes. ![]() The other two stopped before a large pond. ![]() The palmettos and spiny bracken tore his trousers as he ripped away low-hanging limbs and spirals of Spanish moss. Dragging his legs through the muck, he pulled himself up on cypress knees to the slippery embankment. The night air pulsed with the reverberations of a multitude of insects, punctuated by bullfrog croaks and the occasional splash of something leaving the muddy banks for the safety of the swamp water.īefore him, two others struggled through the marsh. The man sank to his knees in black water. ![]()
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