Seeking Nessabella by Marissa Serrao EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Marissa Serrao
- Language: English
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Silent Screams
Day was turning to night, but I was running, running fast, my guts on
fire and screaming at me, but it was too hard to pay them any mind.
To be truthful, they didn’t matter much in the moment. Nothing mattered—
nothing other than the fact that I was distracted. My full attention was
gripped by what was looming there in the darkness, waiting for me, lurking.
Every snapping branch and rustling leaf made the hairs on the back of my
neck stand tall, the acid in my stomach leaking into my throat like a silent,
drawn-out scream.
It burned, cloying at my gullet like a personal attack, bringing on a faint
nausea.
I wanted to stop: every fiber of my being was saying to ease off. I wanted
to rest, lean against the coarse trunk of one of the vast trees, and cough up
the watery vileness.
Stop running, take a rest. Breathe!
But still, I ran as fast as I could without the risk of losing balance and
tripping.
Silent Screams
There was no room in my mind to think of what had happened when I
was so focused on where I was right now and where I was heading.
Where am I going?
I didn’t know, and there was no time to think about it.
I could hear more than I could see, which was a horrible thing when what
I could see terrified me to my core. The moon cast only a sliver of bright
light through the canopy of foliage, making the trees look like angular
broken spider legs, giant arachnids whose job it was to guard the forest
floor from the otherwise dim and yellowed moonlight.
A shrill in the air came bouncing off fallen logs, and along with it, a
pungent, rotten stench. And now, black feathers were swooping before my
face, a squirming rodent hanging there beneath them. Razor-sharp talons
silenced the small creature, leaving the forest enveloped in an eerie
stillness. Every bird and beast hushed; they too were afraid of the predators.
At least it stayed quiet for that moment.
I came to a halt, pressing my strained and aching back against a tree with
oddly bubbling bark. My fingers gripped its mossy surface, hoping to
stabilize my body—and, hopefully, my mind as well, though this seemed
unlikely. As for my eyes, I didn’t dare close them.
Instead, I rested the back of my head against the craggy bark, leaning
backward and up to the sky, sucking in the damp atmosphere as if the stars
had been fashioned from pure oxygen.
In my ears, a warning blared, like an air horn that wouldn’t quit.
My hands drew themselves to the sides of my head, trying to drown out
the symphony of sour, growling stomachs growing louder.
Which noises are real?
Which ones are figments of my mind? I’m becoming unhinged…
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