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Or so I thought.
Because as I kept walking, the little wobble in my belly started to tell me that I’d been walking too long, that I was hopelessly turned around.
“I’m sorry buddy. What a shitty savior I turned out to be, huh?” I murmured, my body jolting hard at a clap of thunder that had the ground beneath us trembling.
I kept walking, despite knowing that you were supposed to sit tight when you were lost.
But that was assuming that someone would be missing you, would be looking for you. And the only person who might be looking for me was someone I didn’t want to be found by.
So I kept walking.
And walking.
There was a strange sound at some point, something not storm related, that had me tensing as I moved around a tree.
And there it was.
There he was.
The source of the sound.
Someone digging in the rain.
I thought that perhaps I’d traveled far enough that I was on someone else’s property.
Until I saw the man move away from the hole he was digging, squat down in front of something dark on the ground.
A bag, it seemed, as he unzipped it.
Then started to pull something out of it.
No.
Not something.
Someone.
A body.
He was pulling a body out of it.
Dead, judging by the way it just flopped as he moved it.
My mind flashed with the potential of this being the guy who was after me, before I tamped it down.
No.
This was someone else.
Someone burying bodies in the woods.
Maybe the same bastard who abandoned the puppies.
As if on cue, the puppy let out a whimper as the thunder rolled.
It was a split second decision as the lightning flashed, lighting up the sky, to just… turn and run.
Whatever that was, I needed to have nothing to do with it. I was in enough of my own trouble. I didn’t need to be getting into anyone else’s.
