05-07-2014, 09:19 AM
What Connor saw as he looked back chilled him to the bone. Tehya stood there and fire seemed to roll from her toward the creature. Are you kidding me? Another one? But he had no time to question the coincidence further. The mist moved quickly, as if drawn by a magnet to Tehya. The fire didn't seem to have any effect he could see, but now it was behind her, looming over her in a perverse lover's pose, Tehya seemingly frozen in thral to the creature. Her head lolled back as if resting on a lover's chest.
Connor reached the wall and broke the glass to the fire extinguisher with his elbow. It was the only thing he could think of. All fire suppression systems worked by removing one or more elements from the fire triangle- oxygen, fuel and heat. The CCD was a technologically advanced country so they should have the same modern models as those back home, which drew out the heat very rapidly, freezing whatever it was sprayed at almost instantly.
That last time Giovanni had frozen the creature and Aria had cut off its head. There was a lot of blood. Connor hoped that between the freezing and his hunting knife, he'd be able to stop the thing before it hurt any of them.
Connor grabbed the extinguisher, popped the safety tab with his thumb and ran to the creature while his right hand pulled out his knife and flipped it open.
The spray of the extinguisher caused the mist to billow and it roiled. A high keening painfully cut through his ears and into his brain, like bone in a grinder. The mist began to coalesce quickly, and he could begin to make out a head thrown back in agony. But before it solidified into something he could kill, it turned that head and the black sockets that were its eyes flared wide as it saw him. It struck him in the chest, knocking him back onto the ground.
Connor held onto the extinguisher even as he flew back the few feet. He struck the ground and his head hit hard. Bright lights burst in his eyes, but he shook his head to clear them. Have to get up, he thought. Have to stop it. But when his sight had cleared, the creature was gone.
Tehya, though, was still standing there, face no longer in ecstasy but rather tired concentration, as if gathering herself. Or rather, to keep from falling. He didn't know what the thing had been doing to her, but from his experience with Jensen, he knew that she was very weak, whatever brave face she was showing him. Connor's head ached and his chest felt bruised, but he forced himself up and walked slowly to her.
"Are you alight?"
he said with concern. She looked at him and her dark eyes looked drained. He offered her his hand. "You need to sit down. You're going to need rest to recover from this."
And then Connor heard the train coming. Finally
Edited by Connor Kent, May 7 2014, 09:54 AM.
Connor reached the wall and broke the glass to the fire extinguisher with his elbow. It was the only thing he could think of. All fire suppression systems worked by removing one or more elements from the fire triangle- oxygen, fuel and heat. The CCD was a technologically advanced country so they should have the same modern models as those back home, which drew out the heat very rapidly, freezing whatever it was sprayed at almost instantly.
That last time Giovanni had frozen the creature and Aria had cut off its head. There was a lot of blood. Connor hoped that between the freezing and his hunting knife, he'd be able to stop the thing before it hurt any of them.
Connor grabbed the extinguisher, popped the safety tab with his thumb and ran to the creature while his right hand pulled out his knife and flipped it open.
The spray of the extinguisher caused the mist to billow and it roiled. A high keening painfully cut through his ears and into his brain, like bone in a grinder. The mist began to coalesce quickly, and he could begin to make out a head thrown back in agony. But before it solidified into something he could kill, it turned that head and the black sockets that were its eyes flared wide as it saw him. It struck him in the chest, knocking him back onto the ground.
Connor held onto the extinguisher even as he flew back the few feet. He struck the ground and his head hit hard. Bright lights burst in his eyes, but he shook his head to clear them. Have to get up, he thought. Have to stop it. But when his sight had cleared, the creature was gone.
Tehya, though, was still standing there, face no longer in ecstasy but rather tired concentration, as if gathering herself. Or rather, to keep from falling. He didn't know what the thing had been doing to her, but from his experience with Jensen, he knew that she was very weak, whatever brave face she was showing him. Connor's head ached and his chest felt bruised, but he forced himself up and walked slowly to her.
"Are you alight?"
he said with concern. She looked at him and her dark eyes looked drained. He offered her his hand. "You need to sit down. You're going to need rest to recover from this."
And then Connor heard the train coming. Finally
Edited by Connor Kent, May 7 2014, 09:54 AM.