I stumbled, and fell to my knees against the hard bitumen of the road. I quickly scrambled to my aching feet, with trembling fingers brushed the pebbles indented with blood in the scrapes on my knees. I looked back over my shoulder, my eyes darting right to left frantically, terrified. Where was it? My breath coming in- shuddering gasps that wracked my body with pain. Then I could see it! It was coming at the …showed first 75 words of 891 total…

…showed last 75 words of 891 total…my eyes, the blood from my mangled hands mixing with the salty tears. I knew that they would not give into mercy this time, they were hard, cold, unfeeling. Almost like the Devil's sons indeed. I could feel my pain, rising in tumults inside of my body, threatening to engulf me. No! I cried in my mind... I wasn't going to let them see my pain, and I would not scream, not like last time.