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I freeze and stop watching.
The growl sounds again and my knees turn to water.
Christ what the fuck is that?
The patter of footsteps click against the ground and then there’s a skitter and eyes glowing in the dark. A pair of six eyes and growls.
Dogs.
I’m already running in the dark before my brain can process that the dogs have started to chase me.
I run until I see more light. It gets brighter and brighter and I’m racing up a path of rock and dirt. The dogs chase me and I run, crying and screaming. I’m so tired and weak. So weak. I burst out into the light and stop myself before I fall down a deep drop.
I have to recoil my force and push back hard against a rocky wall.
Three of the dogs go over. They run straight out and the other three are barking at me, three mean looking Dobermans. They look all messed up like someone trained them to kill on sight.
I clutch at the wall and kick at the first one as it leaps into the air and comes for me. The kick sends it into the chasm the first three fell down.
That makes the remaining two back down, but they don’t stop barking.
Realizing I have a grip on the wall, I grab it and plant my feet into the grooves of the rock to try and climb up.
I move fast and sure because the dogs below look like they’re ready to tear me apart.
Rip me apart even. Thank God dogs can’t climb because I’d be dead now. I manage to climb up and see another level of wherever I am. Pulling myself up I shuffle onto a paved surface.
It’s paved and when I look around I see a brighter office-style light.
I work out that I’m in a cave somewhere. The rock and the hollow gives it that feel. Also that drop. I’m still in Chicago though or maybe somewhere outside where it’s more like countryside. I don’t know. For all I know I could be in the back garden at Tobias’s house.
I have no fucking clue.
Ahead of me is a path with two gray walls on either side. The light around is a bright industrial type light that makes me wonder if I really am in a cave.
It must be something like that.
Wherever I am Tobias brought me here and I’m guessing I’m supposed to keep moving.
The man is so confusing. He talks about wanting me and then he does this. I’m in a cave and I was just chased by ravenous dogs.
Shit… did he mean for me to die?
I rise to my feet and follow the path. The light gets brighter and the walls change into floor to ceiling glass windows. Now it feels like I’m in some kind of underground lab.
In a cave. This is definitely a cave. Through the window to the left there are jagged rocks and various formations that I can make out in the light. The path leads up, it definitely feels like I’m going up.
If I see daylight and find my way out, I’m running. Running like hell.Escaping.
This whole … everything is such a mess and I made it worse. So it doesn’t matter what I do from here on, the situation will be bad. Tobias always planned to kill Gabe. If I can get out I can warn him.
I can do something.
I can…
My voice trails off as I look to my right and see Gabe walking right next to me. He’s on the other side of the window. Through the glass, he’s there.
I stop in my tracks for a split second just so I can check this isn’t some dream or that my brain isn’t screwing with me. When I realize it’s really him adrenaline propels me to the glass window, right to him.
