Chapter One:
The New Kid
Will was on his back, falling through darkness, and the only
thing he could think about was whether he had any reason
whatsoever to go on living. He decided he did. There was someone
he had to kill.
He was falling faster and faster, the updraft whipping at his
clothes. He knew he'd have to get his body turned around to have
any chance of surviving. He twisted his torso and wrenched himself
sideways. The air was hot and getting hotter by the second. Soon it
would be scalding. Dirt and debris shot up from below, pelting him
in the face, as he plummeted through the dark tunnel, dropping fast
as a sack of scrap iron. Tunnel entrances flashed by in a blur. He
tried grabbing at the roots and outcroppings of rocks that zoomed by
but he was going too fast. This can't be it, he thought, this can't be the
end, it just can't! Sure, he'd made stupid mistakes; he'd miscalculated
the power and cunning of his enemy. But there was still hope, wasn't
there? He had to grab a root. It was either that or die for sure on
impact. Impact on what he didn't know, but no way could it be anything
but beyond horrible.
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product of the author's imagination
and are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
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Copyright © 2009 by Temple Mathews
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