[He can feel her grab onto him, and it's enough to steady him. It takes Jay a second to focus, to fully grasp the sheer drop in front of him, and he takes a hesitant step back and trips--]
[--skidding against the leaf litter. The old university building had a chill, but it's somehow worse out here, with wet, yellow-brown leaves scattered in the mud below, with the canopy dripping fat droplets of water.]
[It wasn't raining before, he thinks, hysterically.]
[The underbrush is thick, wound with peppervine and kudzu, and even though he doesn't see the trail, Jay knows where they are.]
Rosswood.
[He says it for her sake.]
C'mon, we gotta run--
[He grabs clumsily at her arm and pulls her along, lurching toward a narrow break in the underbrush. He only manages a few steps before there's an awful c̸ra͘c̴k̡
echoing in the space behind them. They've been spotted.]
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[--skidding against the leaf litter. The old university building had a chill, but it's somehow worse out here, with wet, yellow-brown leaves scattered in the mud below, with the canopy dripping fat droplets of water.]
[It wasn't raining before, he thinks, hysterically.]
[The underbrush is thick, wound with peppervine and kudzu, and even though he doesn't see the trail, Jay knows where they are.]
Rosswood.
[He says it for her sake.]
C'mon, we gotta run--
[He grabs clumsily at her arm and pulls her along, lurching toward a narrow break in the underbrush. He only manages a few steps before there's an awful c̸ra͘c̴k̡
echoing in the space behind them. They've been spotted.]
[Weren't you looking for him?]
[Doesn't matter. Run, run.]